What we know about the LaGuardia crash

Investigators are probing the collision between a passenger jet
and a fire truck at New YorkÕs LaGuardia Airport that killed the
planeÕs two pilots and injured dozens of other people

Mar 22: Collision destroys cockpit of Air Canada Express
CRJ-900 jet carrying 76 people and flips fire truck on its side

LaGuardia Airport
New
York
New Jersey
Long
Island
Atlantic Ocean
10km
6 miles

11.37pm local time: Air Canada Express Flight 8646
arriving from Montreal lands on Runway 4

Minutes before crash: Fire truck responds
to United Airlines flight on other side of
airport that had declared emergency due
to strange odour on board

Likely collision point

Plane decelerates

1
2
3
LAGUARDIA
AIRPORT
Fire
Station
Runway 4
Taxiway D
Taxiway E
East River
300m
1,000ft

Sources: BBC, Bloomberg, Reuters
Picture: Google Earth
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