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Two peo­ple were killed and sev­er­al oth­ers bad­ly hurt when an Air Cana­da re­gion­al jet struck a fire truck on a run­way while land­ing at New York’s La­Guardia Air­port, of­fi­cials said.

The pi­lot and copi­lot were killed in the late Sun­day night col­li­sion, which crushed the nose of the air­craft, while around 40 pas­sen­gers and crew mem­bers were tak­en to area hos­pi­tals, some with se­ri­ous in­juries. Most have since been re­leased from treat­ment, au­thor­i­ties said Mon­day.

Two Port Au­thor­i­ty em­ploy­ees who were trav­el­ing in the fire truck al­so suf­fered in­juries that were not be­lieved to be life-threat­en­ing, said Kathryn Gar­cia, ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of the Port Au­thor­i­ty of New York and New Jer­sey, which op­er­ates the air­port.