Two pilots dead as LaGuardia runway collision with fire truck spurs investigation

A Jazz Aviation-operated Air Canada Express plane collided with a Port Authority fire-rescue vehicle on a LaGuardia runway while the truck was responding to a separate incident; two pilots were killed and 41 people were hospitalized, mostly from the aircraft. One runway reopened the next day as hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed and the FAA kept a ground stop. The NTSB has launched a go team, with assistance from Canada's TSB and ALPA, to determine how the vehicle ended up on the runway and whether air traffic control clearance contributed to the tragedy.