Two Pilots Die After Air Canada Jet Collides with Firetruck at LaGuardia Airport in New York

Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther died after their Air Canada Express jet collided with a Port Authority firetruck in New York.The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating why controllers cleared both the aircraft and the vehicle to use the runway.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called for modernized systems and increased staffing after reports that controllers were overwhelmed.The fatal accident occurred while the jet was arriving from Montreal as the emergency vehicle responded to an unrelated incident.
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