{"id":48136,"date":"2026-03-23T07:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/an-air-canada-plane-was-wrecked-at-laguardia-after-it-collided-with-a-vehicle-while-taxiing\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:41:16","slug":"an-air-canada-plane-was-wrecked-at-laguardia-after-it-collided-with-a-vehicle-while-taxiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/an-air-canada-plane-was-wrecked-at-laguardia-after-it-collided-with-a-vehicle-while-taxiing\/","title":{"rendered":"An Air Canada plane was wrecked at LaGuardia after it collided with a vehicle while taxiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69c0dc46e98a37a4841f27c3?format=jpeg\" alt=\"An Air Canada Express CRJ-900 sits on the runway after colliding with a Port Authority fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York, on March 23, 2026. Air Canada Express flight AC8646 originated from Montreal and collided with the fire truck during landing.\"\/><figcaption>An Air Canada plane crashed with a ground vehicle while taxiing in LaGuardia airport.<\/p>\n<p>ANGELA WEISS \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The front of an Air Canada plane was wrecked after it collided with a vehicle at LaGuardia Airport.<\/li>\n<li>Photos from the scene showed the plane on the ground, at an angle, its nose severely damaged.<\/li>\n<li>LaGuardia \u2014 one of the three major commercial airports serving New York \u2014 has been shut.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An Air Canada aircraft collided with a ground vehicle at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, resulting in major damage to the front of the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Canada Express flight, a CRJ-900 aircraft operated by Jazz Aviation, struck a rescue and firefighting vehicle that was responding to a separate incident, a New York City port authority spokesperson told Business Insider in a statement early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Jazz Aviation said in a statement on its website that the plane was carrying 72 passengers and 4 crew members. The statement did not provide information about the number of injuries or casualties.<\/p>\n<p>The flight left Montreal around 10:35 p.m. E.T., and touched down at LaGuardia at 11:37 p.m., per data from flight tracking website Flightradar24.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The airport is currently closed to facilitate the response and allow for a thorough investigation,&quot; the port authority spokesperson said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Photos on social media showed an Air Canada plane lying tilted on the ground, with its nose severely damaged.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69c0d5f458b5806618e7d42e?format=jpeg\" alt=\"An Air Canada Jet sits on the runway at LaGuardia Airport, Monday, March 23, 2026, after colliding with a Port Authority vehicle in New York.\"\/><figcaption>An Air Canada plane crashed at LaGuardia airport on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Ryan Murphy<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An air traffic control recording from LiveATC.net appeared to capture the moments before the collision. In the recording, a controller urgently instructs a vehicle to stop moving. A few minutes later, the controller announces there has been an incident on the airfield.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a ground stop notice for all planes at LaGuardia Airport, per a notice by the agency.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a request for comment, the New York City Fire Department spokesperson said the department had responded to a call at 11:38 p.m., about an incident involving a plane and a vehicle on the runway.<\/p>\n<p>LaGuardia is one of the three major commercial airports serving New York. It said in an X post earlier on Sunday that &quot;weather conditions have caused LGA Airport flight disruptions,&quot; and advised passengers to &quot;check with your airline to determine the status of your flight.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story, check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Air Canada plane crashed with a ground vehicle while taxiing in LaGuardia airport. ANGELA WEISS \/ AFP via Getty Images The front of an Air Canada plane was wrecked after it collided with a vehicle at LaGuardia Airport. Photos from the scene showed the plane on the ground, at an angle, its nose severely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}