New York: The pilot and co-pilot of an Air Canada Express regional jet with 76 people on board were killed after it collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia airport late on Sunday (New York time), authorities and US media said. The Air Canada Express CRJ-900 plane, operated by its regional partner Jazz Aviation, was carrying 72 passengers and four crew members from Montreal, Canada, said Kathryn Garcia, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Jazz is owned by Chorus Aviation. According to aviation tracker Flight Radar 24, flight AC8646 took off from Montreal and landed at LaGuardia at 11.37pm (New York time). The aircraft was taxiing at a speed of about 39km/h when it struck the fire truck, which was crossing the runway to respond to a separate incident aboard a United Airlines flight. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said 32 of the 41 injured on the Air Canada jet had been released, while nine remained in hospital with serious injuries.…