What’s next in the investigation into the deadly Air Canada collision at LaGuardia | CNN

An Air Canada regional jet landing at one of the country’s busiest and most prominent airports slammed into a fire truck at more than 100 miles per hour on Sunday, leaving federal investigators and frightened passengers questioning what could have gone wrong. The National Transportation Safety Board combed through wreckage, collecting data and physical evidence to find answers in the first days of an investigation that will take a year or longer. “We have a lot of data right now, a lot of information, including information on tower staffing, but the NTSB deals in facts,” said Jennifer Homendy, chair of the NTSB, at a news conference on Monday. “We don’t speculate. We don’t take one person at their word. We verify that information carefully before we provide it.” Investigators have released the plane to Air Canada, the airline said, which will move it into a secured hangar where teams will begin reuniting passengers with the personal belongings they left behind as they evacuated. “Items will be safely returned as soon as possible, although the process of sorting and identifying all belongings from the aircraft will take time,” the airline said Wednesday. Air Canada