WATCH: 2 pilots dead, many injured as Air Canada jet rams fire truck on LaGuardia runway
President Donald Trump described flying passenger jets a “dangerous business” and called the tragedy at New York’s LaGuardia airport, in which an Air Canada jet hit a firetruck that had been permitted to cross a runway, “terrible.”
The accident killed both pilots and left dozens of passengers injured, some critically.
It happened late Sunday when the Air Canada plane was landing, and a firetruck was on the runway.
Video that has been posted online suggests that the truck had...