What happened in the seconds before Air Canada plane crashed at LaGuardia

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Two pilots were killed and several passengers and crew were injured when an Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia airport.

BBC Verify has been using air-traffic-control audio and flight-tracking data to piece together what happened on the runway on 22 March - as Jake Horton explains.

Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Graphics by Mesut Ersoz. Verification by Daniele Palumbo.

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