Horrific footage has revealed the moment an Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck as it crossed a runway at LaGuardia Airport.

Surveillance footage of the runway showed the Air Canada Bombardier CRJ-900 aircraft landing around 11.30pm ET Sunday night, at the same moment a fire truck crossed its path on the tarmac.

The plane was traveling at approximately 150mph when it struck the fire truck during heavy rainfall, and the footage showed a huge splash of water as the collision sent the truck careening across the runway.

The pilot and co-pilot in the Air Canada aircraft were killed in the wreck, with 41 others including two people in the fire truck hospitalized. No identities have been released.

The footage of the crash comes as audio from air traffic control revealed workers pleaded for the fire truck to stop in the seconds before it crashed into the jet.

The fire truck had been given permission to cross the runway to deal with an unrelated issue on a separate plane, where a pilot reported that an ‘odor’ was filling the aircraft that left ‘flight attendants feeling ill’, officials said.

As the fire truck raced to the other aircraft, air traffic controllers appeared to realize it was on a collision course with the Air Canada jet seconds before impact, as one said in the audio: ‘Truck One, stop, stop, stop!’

Addressing the plane seconds later, the air traffic controller said: ‘JAZZ 646, I see you collided with the vehicle. Just hold position. I know you can’t move. Vehicles are responding to you now.’

Horrific footage has revealed the moment an Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck as it crossed a runway at LaGuardia Airport, sending a huge spray of water and debris across the tarmac as the truck was flipped

Horrific footage has revealed the moment an Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck as it crossed a runway at LaGuardia Airport, sending a huge spray of water and debris across the tarmac as the truck was flipped

The pilot and co-pilot in the Air Canada aircraft were killed in the crash and 41 other people were hospitalized

The pilot and co-pilot in the Air Canada aircraft were killed in the crash and 41 other people were hospitalized

The audio from air traffic controllers then showed the dispatcher telling the crew of a nearby Frontier plane that the runway would be closed, asking if they would like to return to the ramp.

‘We got stuff in progress for that man, that wasn’t good to watch,’ a Frontier pilot said.

‘Yeah, I tried to reach out to them. We were dealing with an emergency, and I messed up,’ the controller replied, before the Frontier pilot tries to reassure him, saying: ‘No, you did the best you could.’

There were 72 passengers and four crew members aboard the aircraft, and experts said the death toll could have been far higher if the truck had collided with the fuel stored on the plane.

Images from the tarmac after the incident showed the truck was destroyed in the collision. The nose of the Air Canada plane had also been torn off by the impact.

One of the 41 people hospitalized in the crash was a female flight attendant, who was ejected through the front of the jet while still strapped to her jump seat. She was injured but is expected to make a full recovery.

The crash resulted in LaGuardia grounding all flights until at least 2pm ET Monday as emergency crews raced to the scene.

‘Stop truck one, stop!’ ATC panic as Air Canada hits vehicle

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The fire truck was completely destroyed by the wreck, and the pilot and co-pilot in the Air Canada aircraft were killed

The fire truck was completely destroyed by the wreck, and the pilot and co-pilot in the Air Canada aircraft were killed

The nose of the Air Canada aircraft was crushed in the collision

The nose of the Air Canada aircraft was crushed in the collision

A terrified passenger shared shocking images of the damage to the aircraft

A terrified passenger shared shocking images of the damage to the aircraft

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has launched an investigation into the cause of the crash.

Sources told NBC News that the air traffic controller was working two positions at the time of the crash, amid an ongoing nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers.

The pilot and first officer killed in the crash were both Canadian.

‘Sadly, the two pilots are confirmed deceased and notifications are being made by Air Canada’s care team at this time,’ said Kathryn Garcia, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

‘We don’t have demographic information, but we do understand that they operated out of Canada as their locale.’

Jack Cabot, a passenger on the Air Canada jet, described the moment they made impact as ‘chaos’.

‘It was chaos’: Air Canada passenger speaks after deadly crash

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The Port Authority vehicle was turned on its side as several emergency responders flooded the runway

The Port Authority vehicle was turned on its side as several emergency responders flooded the runway

Cabot said the journey had been a ‘regular flight like always, but as we were arriving, we came down really hard.’

He said the hard landing saw the pilots ‘stop really quickly’ on the runway, before about two second later ‘there was just an absolute slam.’

‘Everybody was flying everywhere, the plane started veering off left and right,’ he told Fox News.

‘It was chaos, I mean it didn’t feel like there was anybody in control.’