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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.

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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Michael Canders, associate professor of aviation at Farmingdale State College, weighs in on the crash that killed two pilots and injured dozens on a runway at LaGuardia Airport Sunday night. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa reports.

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The deposed Venezuelan leader made his first court appearance on Monday in Manhattan as large crowds gathered outside the courthouse. NewsdayTV's Andrew Ehinger reports.

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A team from the National Transportation Safety Board was on scene Monday at LaGuardia examining wreckage from the crash.

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Understaffing of controllers has long been a concern at the Federal Aviation Administration.

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Two aviation experts told Newsday that the air traffic controller who gave permission to a firefighting truck to enter the runway where it collided with a jet may have been handling tasks normally meant for two people.

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The crash between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck left two pilots dead and dozens injured.

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"I'm just happy to be alive," said Rebecca Liquori, a married mother of two. "I would have never pictured a one-hour flight that I've done countless times ... ending like this."

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In his inaugural address, Mamdani said that today "begins a new era" for New York City.

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Crowds cheered as Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York.

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Jose Ortiz, aka Doctor Drum, from the Bronx, played pandeiro, a Brazilian tambourine, for crowds awaiting New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's inauguration.

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Members of activist group Sing Out, Louise! celebrated newly elected New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani in song in frigid temperatures ahead of his inauguration.

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Pope Leo XIV has chosen Bishop Ronald Hicks as the next archbishop of New York. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa reports.

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Take a peek into Central Perk, the new "Friends"-themed coffeehouse in Times Square.

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Mangione's lawyers are asking a judge to toss out key evidence in his murder trial. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa reports.

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Watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons get inflated ahead of the holiday tradition. NewsdayTV's Doug Geed has more.

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Sharjeel Waris, an NYPD officer from Suffolk who was shot in the face while responding to a 911 call, was released from Brookdale University Hospital Monday afternoon. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa reports.

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been sentenced to more than four years in prison.

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A Newsday analysis showed Long Islanders donated more money to Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani than to all his opponents combined.

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Frank Labidi, 24, of Farmingville, "treated a public roadway like a race track," Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly said. NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports.

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