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Timeline of LaGuardia Airport collision

An Air Canada Express passenger jet and a fire-and-rescue vehicle collided on a runway at LaGuardia Airport, killing the plane's pilot and co-pilot, officials said. CBS News' Tom Hanson breaks down the timeline of events.
Mar 23 (04:25)

TRANSCRIPT FOR: “TIMELINE OF LAGUARDIA AIRPORT RUNWAY COLLISION BETWEEN PASSENGER JET AND RESCUE TRUCK”

ATC:
00:03:30

Frontier 4195, just stop there, please. Stop, stop, stop, stop. Truck one, stop, stop, stop. Stop, truck one. Stop. Stop, truck one, stop. So you can just get a sense of how frantic that air traffic controller was once he realized what was unfolding. No doubt, the people on the plane watched in horror as this all happened, as well. And as I mentioned, that center of gravity, you can see the tail of the plane is on the ground off of the wheels. So you can imagine that people jolted up, which probably led to some of the injuries. No doubt, people here shaken. And obviously, it's going to take some time for things to get back up and running and back to normal here, Reed.

REED COWAN:
00:04:12

Well, and obviously that was a high rate of speed that both hit. We wish our very best to the people who were injured and our condolences to the families of those pilots. Tom Hanson, once again, live for us at LaGuardia. Thank you.

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