{"id":69730,"date":"2026-03-23T07:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/new-yorks-laguardia-airport-closed-after-plane-collision-with-fire-truck-kills-two-pilots-latest-updates\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:54:52","slug":"new-yorks-laguardia-airport-closed-after-plane-collision-with-fire-truck-kills-two-pilots-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/new-yorks-laguardia-airport-closed-after-plane-collision-with-fire-truck-kills-two-pilots-latest-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s LaGuardia airport closed after plane collision with fire truck kills two pilots \u2013 latest updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 40 people taken to hospital after Air Canada Express crash, some with serious injuries <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/23\/air-canada-plane-collides-with-ground-vehicle-at-new-yorks-laguardia-airport-halting-all-flights\">Pilot and co-pilot killed after Air Canada jet collision at LaGuardia New York<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email <\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Transportation secretary Sean Duffy said earlier this morning the US air safety watchdog was investigating the crash and was working with the federal aviation body.<\/p>\n<p>Duffy also paid tributes to the pilots who were killed in the crash. Writing on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecDuffy\/status\/2036035897674617167\">X<\/a>, he said: \u201cOur prayers this morning are with the families impacted by the ground collision at LaGuardia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/23\/new-york-laguardia-airport-plane-vehicle-crash-air-canada-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 40 people taken to hospital after Air Canada Express crash, some with serious injuries Pilot and co-pilot killed after Air Canada jet collision at LaGuardia New York Sign up for the Breaking News US email Transportation secretary Sean Duffy said earlier this morning the US air safety watchdog was investigating the crash and was &#8230; <a title=\"New York\u2019s LaGuardia airport closed after plane collision with fire truck kills two pilots \u2013 latest updates\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/new-yorks-laguardia-airport-closed-after-plane-collision-with-fire-truck-kills-two-pilots-latest-updates\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New York\u2019s LaGuardia airport closed after plane collision with fire truck kills two pilots \u2013 latest updates\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}