Unpublished Newswire

Standard procedure quickly turns to panic in chilling audio from the air traffic control tower at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in the brief moments just before and after the fatal Air Canada crash late Sunday night. “Stop, stop, stop,” a panic-stricken air traffic controller repeated to the driver of the fire truck that collided with the jet as it landed on the runway. The pilot and co-pilot were both killed in the collision and 39 of the 72 passengers were sent to the hospital, nine of whom remain in care, some in critical condition. According to the recording at LiveATC.net, the...

Images from New York’s LaGuardia Airport where an Air Canada jet hit a fire truck on the runway reveal a scene of devastation on the ground and chaos in the terminal. The crash happened late Sunday night, and the first images to come from the crash site are bathed in the light of runway floodlights and emergency vehicles, which quickly clustered around the crash site. The plane, a CRJ-900, can be seen resting at extreme angle, with the back of the tail touching the ground and the nose several metres in the air. The cockpit has been nearly demolished, with damage extending as far...