Survivors recount final moments before LaGuardia plane crash

• An Air Canada Express flight collided with a Port Authority fire truck on an active runway at LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night, resulting in the deaths of two pilots and injuries to dozens of passengers.
• The collision occurred after an air traffic controller's urgent command to "Stop, stop, stop! Truck 1, stop!" came too late to prevent the jet from striking the emergency vehicle, which was responding to a separate incident.
• Passengers described chaos and a hard impact, with some suggesting the deceased pilots may have saved lives by initiating a reverse thrust at the last second. “We had just touched down, and maybe about 30 seconds later we all felt a jolt forward, then a loud bang, and what felt like sliding sideways down the runway,” passenger Brady Sego wrote on Reddit. “Someone did say the pilot tried to reverse thrust at the last second. Honestly, they likely saved our lives.
• “It was a regular flight like always,” passenger Jack Cabot told Fox News. “As we were arriving, we came down really hard. We stopped really quickly, 2 seconds later, we had an absolute slam.” Cabot recalled the moments following the impact, which left the front of the jet obliterated. “Everybody was flying everywhere,” he told Fox News. “The plane veering off left and right. It was chaos. It didn’t feel like there was anybody controlling it.”
• The incident led to the closure of LaGuardia Airport, the cancellation of over 400 flights, and prompted comments from President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

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‘Hero’ pilots died saving their passengers after Air Canada flight crashed into fire truck at LaGuardia airport, survivor says