March 23 (UPI) -- New York City's LaGuardia Airport reopened Monday afternoon as federal investigators probe the cause of late Sunday's fatal crash between an Air Canada flight and a fire truck on Runway 4.
The Bombardier CRJ-900 had landed on the runway and collided at high speed with the fire truck as it was crossing the tarmac at around 11:37 p.m. EST Sunday. The aircraft's pilot and co-pilot were killed in the crash, while 43 people, including the fire truck's two occupants, were transported to the hospital, where some remained Monday night.
After the crash of the Jazz Aviation flight operated on behalf of Air Canada, federal authorities issued a ground stop and the airport was closed until 2 p.m. Monday when operations resumed at the airport, according to LaGuardia Airport. The first plane departed LaGuardia at 2:08 p.m., according to air traffic monitoring website Flightradar24.
Federal investigators were arriving at the site to begin their investigation into the cause of the crash on Monday, but not all had arrived by 6 p.m. when Jennifer Homedy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, told reporters during a press conference that the probe will take time.
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