LaGuardia Controller: 'I Messed Up'

The federal investigation into Sunday night's fatal collision between a jet and a firetruck at LaGuardia Airport will take a while to unfold, but investigators will surely be interested in newly released audio capturing the moments before and after the crash. "I messed up," a controller says at one point. Details:

• The firetruck had received permission to cross a runway in response to a separate emergency reported on a different plane, reports the New York Times. But the mistake was soon spotted: "Stop truck 1, stop!" a controller says, trying multiple times to get the truck to halt.

• Roughly 20 minutes after the Air Canada plane hit the truck at a speed of about 100mph, the audio captured an exchange between a controller and a Frontier Airlines pilot, per CNN.
• Pilot: "That wasn't good to watch," he tells the controller, per NBC News, which has a link to the recording itself.
• Controller: "Yeah, I know I was here. I tried to reach out ... and we were dealing with an emergency earlier. I messed up."
• Pilot: "No, man, you did the best you could."
• The pilot and co-pilot of the Air Canada plane with 70 passengers aboard were killed, and dozens were taken to hospitals. However, the AP reports that most were released by Monday morning.