{"id":81674,"date":"2026-03-23T07:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81674"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:36:42","slug":"jet-smashes-in-rescue-vehicles-killing-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/jet-smashes-in-rescue-vehicles-killing-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet Smashes In Rescue Vehicle, Killing Pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the New York Post\u00a0<\/em>[caution tabloid]:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/air-canada-passenger-plane-struck-124249572.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Air Canada Passenger plane struck a Fire truck on arrival at Runway 4 Laguardia Airport\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An Air Canada passenger plane smashed into a rescue truck at New York\u2019s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday \u2014 killing two pilots and hospitalizing 41 others in the horrific crash that obliterated the front of the jet and forced the major travel hub to close for most of Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency vehicles swarmed Runway 4 at the Queens airport after a regional jet landing from Montreal struck a rescue truck responding to a separate incident just before 11:40 p.m.\u00a0Horrific images showed the front of the commuter plane obliterated and tilted up in the air, with debris and cables hanging from the mangled cockpit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774251367\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Jet Smashes In Rescue Vehicle, Killing Pilots\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Post\u00a0[caution tabloid]: An Air Canada passenger plane smashed into a rescue truck at New York\u2019s LaGuardia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}