<p>Maintenance crews moved&nbsp;the wreckage of an Air Canada Express jet from the runway where it collided with a Port Authority fire truck Sunday night at&nbsp;LaGuardia&nbsp;Airport.</p>


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Maintenance crews moved the wreckage of an Air Canada Express jet from the runway where it collided with a Port Authority fire truck Sunday night at LaGuardia Airport.

The airport was closed until about 2 p.m. Monday after a plane crashed into a fire truck on a runway Sunday night, killing two pilots and injuring dozens of others. NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports.

'It was chaotic'

The crash happened at about 11:40 p.m., when a Jazz Aviation flight, operating on behalf of Air Canada, struck a Port Authority firefighting and rescue vehicle that had been responding to a separate incident, the Port Authority said in a statement.

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