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A deadly collision at New York's LaGuardia Airport, and the airport is now closed.

An Air Canada jet hit a fire truck on the runway.

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Now, this happened just before midnight; two pilots were killed.

This video from the scene showing the wrecked plane nose tilted up to the sky.

The crashed truck is seen nearby, and here is the moment air traffic controllers knew something went wrong.

Front there, 4195, just stop there, please.

Stop, stop, stop, stop, truck one, stop, stop, stop.

646, receive collider with vehicle aid, just hold position.

Okay, joining us now with the very latest is CNN correspondent Gloria Pazmino.

And Gloria, what are you hearing right now at LaGuardia?

Yeah, Audi, you know, it's just devastating listening to that audio, hearing, uh, the radio operator telling, uh, the, the vehicle to stop.

We now know that, uh, the vehicle collided with the airplane.

There were 72 passengers aboard that aircraft, four crew members, and

sadly, the pilot and the co-pilot were killed as a result of that collision.

Now, dozens of passengers were also injured.

41 passengers and crew were transported to the hospital shortly after that collision.

the two people who were inside the fire truck, which collided with the airplane, we are told, are in stable condition.

and as you look at the images of the airplane, you can see the front of the airplane is completely destroyed.

The collision happened around 11:40 last night.

This is a Jazz aviation flight that was operating on behalf of, of Air Canada.

The aircraft, we are told, struck a Port Authority aircraft rescue and firefighting vehicle, which was actually responding to a different aircraft on the runway.

It was coming in from Montreal late last night.

It left Montreal around 10:30 PM local time and landed here at 11:40.

It collided with the firefighting vehicle shortly after the landing.

In fact, we've heard from officials here at the Port Authority, which manages the airport, they described the moment saying the collision happened during the landing.

It was traveling south, going very fast, about 130 miles, uh, just before it hit that fire tro fire truck.

Now, the passengers, uh, who did not have to be transported to the hospital were actually seen leaving the airport just a short time ago.

He described the moment to me, telling me that it was a hard landing and that they had no indication that there was a problem on the runway.

We immediately hit something, and it was just chaos in there.

About five seconds later, um, we had come to a stop,

but in, in that short period, I mean, everybody was hunkered down and everybody's screaming.

Um, pretty quickly, um, we didn't have any directions because I the, the, the pilot's cabin had been kind of destroyed.

So somebody said, "Let's get the emergency exit and get the door,

and let's all jump out," and that's exactly what we did.

Audi, the passengers, uh, who did not have to be transported to the hospital were, uh, set up in a, a airline lounge.

They were, uh, reunited with their family members,

and as I said, many of them were leaving, uh, the airport just a short while ago.

Uh, the FAA issued a ground stop here at LaGuardia Airport shortly after the incident.

That ground stop has been lifted now, but the airport is closed.

Officials telling us just in the last hour, they expect LaGuardia Airport to remain closed at least until 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

The National Transportation Service Board, the NTSB, is on the ground launching their investigation.

And I just have to say, the fact that the airport has to remain closed at least until the late afternoon, 2 o'clock today, is certain to cause a lot of delays, a lot of transportation issues here for passengers, which, of course, comes as we are seeing all these other problems, delays, and

long lines as a result of the partial government shutdown.

So it's going to be, uh, a busy and likely, uh, you know, a, a troublesome morning for people who are going to be traveling.

Okay, that's Gloria Pazmino at LaGuardia with the latest.

I want to bring in now CNN Transportation Analyst Mary Schiavo, former Inspector General for the Department of Transportation.

She's also investigated countless aviation crashes.

Um, just to give people the state of play right now, we have those images of the plane.

Uh, we just heard from our reporter, it was traveling something like 120 miles per hour, coming in for its landing.

When you listen to that air traffic control, um, those voices, what are you hearing, uh, that you'd want to investigate?

Well, you know, clearly, when an aircraft is given permission, clearance to land, basically that aircraft owns that runway because, as you said, the aircraft was going 120, 130 miles an hour on other planes, much faster.

But you, you, uh, the brakes don't work that way.

You have the you have you have to slow it down with the thrust reversers.

You do have brakes, but they aren't what principally what slows the plane down.

So once that aircraft was given permission, clearance to land, it owned that runway.

Now, the fire truck we're hearing was also cleared to cross the runway.

Did the controllers think that the fire truck would be crossing behind this aircraft, that it would be further down the runway?

Those are things that the investigators will want to know.

But because it's all recorded, uh, everything that happens in air traffic control is recorded in the tower cab.

Of course, there's also ground control and other controllers there.

But at this point, speed the aircraft was going, clearance to land, it owned the runway.

So that will be probably where the NTSB starts.

Can I follow up with what you said about the fire truck?

I, I think most of us don't know how emergency services work, um, on, on the tarmac.

Tell us, um, how this is supposed to be done.

So in air traffic control, in the actual, uh, control tower, they actually have, uh, what they call they call it the crash phone, but

they, they use this for many things, to get, uh, emergency services, firefighters, etc., to places on the airport.

And we understand that a United flight that was taking off earlier and aborted its takeoff because of fumes in the cabin had called for, uh, services.

And so this fire truck, uh, probably other responder services as well, was responding to that earlier call.

And so air traffic control does dispatch those emergency response vehicles, and they are trained airport-specific.

It's a very big, important part of each airport.

You must have first responders, fire, emergency, you know, medical, etc.,

and they are trained specific to that airport to know how to maneuver around the airport, to cross runways, to coordinate with air traffic control, not to get in the way of, of, uh, fi of the pla uh, train or the planes and the other traffic.

But they are trained specific to that airport.

So that will be another, uh, point of, uh, investigation.

But from what we've heard from the tape so far, they had been cleared to cross the runway,

and the plane landing had been cleared to land on the runway.

CNN's Shimone Procopez is live in New York,

and you were at that press conference a few hours ago.

Uh, what was their initial description of what happened?

Well, you know, this was just the Port Authority officials that were having this press conference,

and they are very limited in what they can say because they're not actually doing this investigation.

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