Two crew members died when Air Canada Express Flight 8646, a Bombardier CRJ-900 carrying 72 passengers from Montreal, collided with a Port Authority fire truck on Runway 4 at New York's LaGuardia Airport shortly after 11:40 p.m. ET on Sunday 22 March 2026.
The fire truck had been cleared to cross the runway at taxiway Delta to respond to an unrelated emergency, a United Airlines plane that had aborted takeoff due to a cabin odour. Air traffic control had granted permission moments earlier, but audio captures the controller urgently repeating 'stop' to the vehicle as the jet touched down and rolled along the runway.
