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Seconds before an Air Canada plane collided with an emergency vehicle at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, an air traffic controller cleared the fire truck to cross the runway – then desperately tried to call it back.

“Stop, stop, stop, stop. Truck One, stop, stop, stop,” the controller urged. “Stop, Truck One, stop! Stop, Truck One! Stop!” The jet hit the vehicle – which had been responding to a separate incident – at a speed of about 167 kilometres an hour, according to data from Flightradar24. The force of the impact sheared off the plane’s nose, killing both pilots: 30-year-old Antoine Forest of Coteau-du-Lac, Que., and Mackenzie Gunther. Nine people remained in hospital with serious injuries yesterday afternoon, including passengers, crew and the two officers aboard the fire truck.

Seventy-six people were on the CRJ-900 jet, operated by Jazz Aviation, that left Montreal’s Trudeau airport late Sunday night. One of the survivors, flight attendant Solange Tremblay, was ejected from the plane while still strapped to her seat, landing more than 100 metres away. Her daughter said that Tremblay had suffered multiple bone fractures but would only need surgery on her leg. “It’s a complete miracle,” Sarah Lépine told Quebec’s TVA Nouvelles. “She really does have a guardian angel watching over her. It could have been much worse.”

During a news conference at LaGuardia yesterday, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani commended passengers for responding to the crash with composure and “extending a hand to the person next to them” on the plane. The escape slides failed to deploy, forcing people to clamber over the wings and hop down to the ground to safety. “I think most of us were pretty aware of what happened,” passenger Clément Lelièvre told The Canadian Press. “So we all went outside, we got other people out.”

He also believed the pilot’s quick reaction to the fire truck prevented a much deadlier crash. “Just as the plane touched down, the pilot braked extremely hard,” Lelièvre said. “I don’t know the circumstances, but I think he kind of saved our lives because he must have had incredible reflexes.”

The collision shuttered LaGuardia’s runways for roughly 14 hours, cancelling more than 500 flights in and out of one of the region’s busiest airports. Planes began to take off again just after 2 p.m. yesterday, but Runway 4, where the accident occurred, will stay closed until early Friday. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has dispatched a team to begin sorting through the wreckage, and Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canadian officials would work closely with the NTSB in its investigation of the crash.

At yesterday’s news conference, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy acknowledged that LaGuardia – like most major airports in America – faces a shortage of fully trained air traffic controllers, and he called on Congress to provide more funding to modernize their system. It’s not clear, though, whether technological problems played any role in the accident, or how many controllers were on duty at the time. Duffy said he’d heard a “rumour” that there was only one controller in the tower Sunday night, but insisted those reports were “not accurate.”

About 15 minutes after the runway collision, air traffic control recordings captured an exchange over the tower’s broadcast. “That wasn’t good to watch,” said the pilot of a Frontier Airlines flight meant to leave for Miami. “Yeah, I know, I was here,” the controller replied. “I tried to reach out … We were dealing with an emergency earlier. I messed up.”

The pilot attempted to console him. “Nah, man. You did the best you could.”

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