An Air Canada flight arriving at LaGuardia Airport crashed into a firetruck on Sunday night, leaving four firefighters critically injured, as per sources.
Emergency vehicles swarmed Runway 4 at the Queens airport after a regional jet was said to be heading from Montreal. It slammed into a fire truck just before 11:40 p.m., as per reports from the FDNY and footage captured by citizens on the ground.
Images showed the front of a commuter plane smashed and tilting in the air. The injured firefighters were said to be from the Port Authority Police Department, as per sources.
One hundred passengers were on the jet, which was outlined as a Bombardier CRJ-900, and their conditions are still being evaluated. Sources mentioned how the plane was carrying a group of Orthodox Jews from the New York area when it crashed.