Two people were killed when an Air Canada flight collided with a fire truck on the runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Saturday, March 21, 2026. The aircraft, a CRJ-900 regional jet operating as Flight AC-7212 from Montreal, struck the emergency vehicle while landing just after 5:00 p.m. local time.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed the fatalities were the two pilots in the cockpit. There were no passengers on board the repositioning flight. The fire truck, which was responding to a separate, minor incident involving another aircraft, was occupied; those firefighters were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has launched an investigation into the cause of the collision. All operations at LaGuardia were temporarily suspended following the accident, causing significant flight delays and cancellations across the airport's schedule.
