A report suggests that air traffic controllers at New York's LaGuardia Airport may have violated rules by combining roles before midnight, possibly contributing to a deadly Air Canada crash with a fire truck.

By John Leland Pranav Baskar Olivia Bensimon Ashley Southall Corey Kilgannon and Jan Ransom A team of reporters interviewed dozens of people, including passengers, from Canada to New York City and analyzed data to reconstruct the moments leading to the crash at LaGuardia Airport.

The airport runway safety system at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport “did not alert” air traffic controllers before an Air Canada jet and a fire truck collided on the runwa

An air traffic controller desperately tried to get the fire truck to stop moments before the collision with the transmission recording: "Stop, stop, stop, Truck 1. Stop, stop, stop."

The fire truck involved in the deadly LaGuardia Airport plane crash was not equipped with a key device to track its movements around the runway — and it’s unclear if the driver could even hear the air tower’s desperate pleas to stop,

An Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night, killing its pilot and co-pilot while injuring more than 40 passengers, crew members and rescue officers.

Since Monday, much of the wreckage had remained on the tarmac, blocking access to one of LaGuardia's two runways at one of the country's busiest airports.