LaGuardia plane crash: Runway reopens after mangled aircraft, truck removed

As the National Transportation Safety Board investigates the crash, NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy said there were two people in the air traffic control tower cab at the time of collision: the local controller and the controller in charge.

Two controllers is "the standard operating procedure for LaGuardia for the midnight shift," Homendy said at a news conference on Tuesday.

She said the NTSB has been concerned about fatigue from the midnight shift in past investigations, but stressed that there is no evidence of fatigue so far in this case.

LaGuardia has a runway safety system allowing air traffic controllers to track surface movement of planes and vehicles, but that system "did not alert," Homendy said.

One reason -- none of the vehicles rushing to the tarmac had tracking systems installed, including the Port Authority fire truck struck by the landing Air Canada flight

The analysis found that the system "did not generate an alert due to the close proximity of vehicles merging and unmerging near the runway, resulting in the inability to create a track of high confidence," Homendy said.

As investigators work to determine what led to the deadly runway collision at LaGuardia Airport, there is growing focus on how this tragedy could have been even worse.

All of the passengers made it out of the damaged plane. Now, some are sharing the terrifying moments before the crash and the chaos that followed.

Rebecca Liquori from Baldwin in Nassau County spoke to Eyewitness News Mornings @ 10 about her experience.

A survivor of the crash at LaGuardia Airport speaks out about the accident.

Antoine Forest has been identified by his family as one of the two pilots killed when a regional Air Canada jet collided with a Port Authority airport vehicle at LaGuardia Airport in New York City.

Antoine Forest has been identified as one of the two pilots killed when a regional Air Canada jet collided with a Port Authority airport vehicle.

The airport's surveillance video was posted on X. It is disturbing, which is why we have stopped the video before the impact. The plane enters from left to right just as the fire truck crosses the runway. The truck rolls over, and the plane skids to a stop in a shower of sparks.