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Air Canada · Airport Safety · Flight Disruptions · LaGuardia
An Air Canada Express CRJ-900 aircraft, operated by Jazz Aviation, collided with a Port Authority fire truck on a LaGuardia Airport runway on March 23, 2026, killing the pilot and co-pilot and injuring over a dozen others, leading to the airport's closure and over 400 flight cancellations.
The incident occurred after 11 pm local time as the flight from Montreal landed, striking the truck at 24mph, according to FlightRadar24 data. The fire truck was responding to a separate incident involving a United Airlines flight that aborted takeoff due to an anti-ice warning and cockpit odor.
LaGuardia Airport, which served over 30 million passengers in 2025, will remain shut until Monday evening at 7 pm, impacting approximately 900 daily flights. The National Transport Safety Board is investigating the crash, which also saw a female flight attendant ejected but surviving, and two Port Authority police officers hospitalized with broken bones, as reported by NBC New York.
The closure causes significant travel disruptions, with flights diverted or returned to origin.
Dozens of flights have arrived in and departed Dubai within minutes of strikes, a WSJ analysis found.
