New York's LaGuardia Airport runway reopens, days after Air Canada collision
發佈日期: 2026-03-27 20:15
TVB News
In New York City, the second of two runways at LaGuardia Airport where two Canadian pilots were killed in a jet-and-truck collision has reopened Thursday morning. The runway had been operating at limited capacity all week as authorities continue their investigation and work crews cleaned up debris.
Video released by the US National Transportation Safety Board showed the wreckage of the fatal tarmac crash in New York's LaGuardia Airport, one of the busiest airports in the US.
Crews worked to pull out loose debris from the damaged Air Canada Express jet arriving from Montreal that crashed into a Port Authority fire truck late Sunday night.
The truck had initially been cleared to cross the runway to respond to a separate incident on another aircraft.
So far, most of the roughly 40 people injured, including two firefighters and a flight attendant thrown onto the tarmac, have been released from the hospital.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees the region's airport, said the runway where the incident occurred already reopened after it is repaired, inspected and confirmed to comply with safety rules.
The bodies of the two deceased Air Canada pilots, Mackenzie Gunther and Antoine Forest, are being repatriated to Ottawa and Montreal airports respectively.
Michael Rousseau, CEO of Air Canada, on Thursday offered apologies for expressing condolences only in English in a video message he released after the collision.
The chief executive said he was saddened that his inability to speak French "diverted attention" from the pilots' grieving families and company staff.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Rousseau's English-only message shows a "lack of compassion."
"Companies like Air Canada particularly have a responsibility to always communicate in both official languages regardless of the situation. I'm very disappointed in, as others are, rightly so, in this unilingual message of the CEO of Air Canada. It doesn't matter the circumstances, but particularly in these circumstances - a lack of judgment and lack of compassion."
One of the pilots killed in the incident was French-Canadian.
