Plane Crash at LaGuardia Airport Kills 2 Pilots, Injures Dozens

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🗓️ 24 March 2026

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At New York City's LaGuardia Airport, two pilots were killed and dozens more injured after an Air Canada plane crashed into a Port Authority fire truck. The Federal Aviation Administration closed LaGuardia until the late afternoon on Monday. The fatal collision comes as anxiety surrounding air travel is already growing due to the ongoing partial government shutdown, which has led to hourslong security lines at some airports tied to a nationwide shortage of TSA agents. Meanwhile, President Trump calmed some market uncertainty brought on by the war in Iran, which is entering its fourth week, announcing a five-day moratorium on U.S. attacks of Iranian energy sites; this caused oil prices to come down, with the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Nasdaq all ticking up. In business, California lawmakers are debating a bipartisan bill that would prohibit children under 16 from maintaining social media accounts, and Uber is partnering with Rivian to deploy up to 50,000 autonomous R2 robotaxis across North America and Europe by 2031. Read more at https://LATimes.com.

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0:00.0	This is an LA Times Studios podcast. Frontier, 4195, just stop there, please.
0:25.6	Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, truck one, stop.
0:29.6	Stop, truck one, stop.
0:31.6	Stop truck one, stop.
0:33.6	No, 223, go around, home,. Only heading 2,000. Thank you. So, you know, and the one of the three years of the United States,
0:56.0	and the United States.
0:58.0	And you know, and the next to the project.
1:01.0	And I'm a very,
1:02.0	the first of the people,
1:04.0	and the people, and the people who are going to be.
1:07.0	And you're going to get.
1:09.0	So, you know, the people who are going to be able move both lines quicker, give TSA support.
1:31.8	There are brothers and sisters who are in the DHS.
1:34.4	And we simply need to get these officers paid.
1:36.6	But until then, the president came up with a great idea.
1:39.6	Let's send additional resources to the airports to support the American people and support
1:43.7	the men and win with TSA who are not getting paid but showing for work every day. I think of the people. We're going to be able to get a great of the people. We're going to get a great of the people who are the people who are going to be a and the people. I'm a kind of a couple of people. We're going to get a person. So through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.
2:30.3	Trump had set a 48-hour deadline for Iran that would have expired at midnight
2:36.6	GMT Tuesday. But instead, we've just heard from Trump on his truth social platform saying that
2:43.3	he's extended it by five days because of ongoing discussions between Washington and Tehran.
2:49.3	Now, Iran hasn't acknowledged any discussions between the two countries,
2:52.6	and in fact, just in the last couple of moments,
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