A timeline of the deadly collision at LaGuardia Airport
NTSB officials and aircraft maintenance workers pick through debris and remove luggage as they inspect the wreckage of an Air Canada Express jet, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, just off the runway where it had collided with a Port Authority fire truck Sunday night at LaGuardia Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) 2026-03-25T01:52:00Z NEW YORK (AP) — It took less than a minute for a routine landing to spiral into a deadly crash Sunday at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.
But the collision between an Air Canada flight and a fire truck crossing the runway was the culmination of a series of events that began much earlier.
The Associated Press created this timeline based on a review of air traffic control recordings and information from the Federal Aviation Administration, publicly available flight tracking data and the National Transportation Safety Board, including information it obtained from the jet’s cockpit voice recorder.
A late departure from Montreal 10:12 p.m.: Air Canada Express Flight 8646, operated by Jazz Aviation, leaves Montréal–Trudeau International Airport, two hours and 13 minutes late.
By the time the aircraft reaches New York, it is part of an influx of late-arriving flights, including some waiting extended periods for a gate.
Issues on the ground at LaGuardia 11:16:42 p.m.: A United aircraft, Flight 2384, aborts takeoff for a second time because of an anti-ice warning light in the cockpit. 11:20:48 p.m.: “We have an odor on the plane as well here at this time,” the United pilot reports. “We are going to be going back to the gate, request fire as well,” using shorthand for the airport’s fire rescue team. 11:21:12 p.m.: Another pilot chimes in: “If that’s a sewer smell … we smelled that too going around the terminal there.” 11:22:24 p.m.: A controller asks the United pilot if it is a smoke odor.
He responds: “No, it was a weird odor.
I don’t know exactly how to describe it,” and says he can’t get ahold of anyone to obtain a gate assignment. 11:24:49 p.m.: The controller confirms there is no gate available.
He asks the pilot, “Do you still need us to send fire there?” The pilot says yes, citing the odor. 11:27:44 p.m.: United 2384’s pilot tells the controller he doesn’t plan on evacuating the plane.
The controller instructs the pilot to move to another taxiway. 11:29:54 p.m.: United 2384 makes a wrong turn and ends up in a different part of the taxiway, but the controller doesn’t sound concerned. “You can just stay over there … and we’
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