Air Canada Plane Crash Survivor Reveals Harrowing Aftermath in Exclusive Live Interview

Audio recordings from LaGuardia Airport’s air traffic control have unveiled a tense exchange where a controller desperately urged a fire truck to halt before it collided with an Air Canada aircraft.

The incident unfolded as the fire truck was speeding across the runway to attend to a different aircraft, which had reported a minor emergency that was separate from the collision.

Initially, the fire truck had been cleared to cross Runway 4, but the situation quickly turned urgent when air traffic controllers began frantically instructing both the fire truck and a Frontier flight headed for Miami to come to an immediate stop.

“Truck One, stop, stop, stop!” an air traffic controller is heard saying in the audio, followed by a message to the plane just moments later: “JAZZ 646, I see you collided with the vehicle. Just hold position. I know you can’t move. Vehicles are responding to you now.”

Controllers then informed the Frontier crew that the runway would be closed due to the incident and inquired whether they wished to return to the ramp.

‘We got stuff in progress for that man, that wasn’t good to watch,’ a Frontier pilot said.

‘Yeah, I tried to reach out to them. We were dealing with an emergency, and I messed up,’ the controller replied, before the Frontier pilot tries to reassure him, saying: ‘No, you did the best you could.’

The flight was affiliated with Jazz Aviation, a regional airline in Nova Scotia, and was operating on behalf of Air Canada.

Two pilots were left dead following the collision, and 41 people were hospitalised.