By Robb M. Stewart
Aviation teams from Air Canada and regional carrier Jazz Aviation are preparing to make their way to the site of a crash at New York City's LaGuardia Airport that killed the pilot and first officer.
Air Canada and Jazz said they are cooperating with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada and the National Transportation Safety Board in the U.S. in the investigation of the cause of the incident.
Air Canada said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed that two Jazz employees were killed in this accident. The Jazz Mitsubishi CRJ-900 was carrying about 72 passengers and four crew members, though Air Canada said it couldn't confirm the exact number of injuries or if there are other fatalities at this time.
Emergency services are on site taking care of injured passengers, and some have been transported to local hospitals, Air Canada said. It said no further details were available but that it and Jazz would continue to issue regular updates as information becomes known.
The Jazz flight, operating on behalf of Air Canada, was arriving from Montreal when it collided with late Sunday with a Port Authority firefighting vehicle that was responding to a separate incident, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The Federal Aviation Administration implemented a full ground stop at the airport until Monday afternoon.
Jazz, a subsidiary of holding company Chorus Aviation, provides regional air services under the Air Canada Express brand.
Write to Robb M. Stewart at robb.stewart@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 23, 2026 07:42 ET (11:42 GMT)
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