Nearly 600 NYC flights into and out of LaGuardia Airport canceled after fatal crash

Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News on Mar 23, 2026

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NEW YORK — More than 600 flights into and out of LaGuardia were canceled Monday after the fatal crash on runway four, according to information complied by the website FlightAware.

Terminal B was largely empty Monday morning as the airport was under a ground-stop order while federal investigators combed the scene.

Flights began again shortly after 2 p.m., operating on runway 13/31 while investigators continued to examine the wreckage on runway 4/22.

Two pilots aboard an Air Canada jet inbound from Montreal died in the crash after the Mitsubishi CRJ-900 they were landing collided with a Port Authority fire truck that had been given clearance to cross the runway.

The airport closure left Gotham with only two major international airports Monday — and unrelated incidents slowed some travel into and out of Newark Airport as well.

The control tower at Newark was evacuated around 7:30 a.m. Monday morning after reports of a “burning smell” from one of the facility’s elevators, an FAA spokesperson told the Daily News. The resulting ground-stop ended after crews returned to the tower an hour later.

Mild delays persisted at Newark mid-morning after reports of a passenger with a medical emergency arriving at the airport.

Flights into and out of Kennedy Airport remained largely on time.

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(New York Daily News reporter Rebecca White contributed to this story.)

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