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‘I Messed Up’: Harrowing Final Moments in LaGuardia Crash

WATCH: An Air Canada Express plane with 76 people aboard collided with a fire truck shortly after landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday, killing the two pilots.Source: Bloomberg

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By Allyson Versprille, Danny Lee, and Max Rivera

March 23, 2026 at 4:24 PM UTC

Updated on

March 23, 2026 at 8:30 PM UTC

Air-traffic controllers were helping a fire truck’s crew navigate a rain-slicked tarmac at New York’s LaGuardia before midnight on Sunday when panic suddenly set in.

The crew had been summoned to inspect a United Airlines Holdings Inc. jet preparing to take off. The drama that followed would quickly become the latest in a series of deadly US aviation disasters.