LaGuardia plane crash: What we know about Air Canada pilots killed, how it unfolded and latest from investigation

The two pilots killed in the collision between a passenger jet and a Port Authority fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport late Sunday have been identified as Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther

The two pilots killed in the collision between a passenger jet and a Port Authority fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport late Sunday have been identified as Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther.

The pair have yet to be officially named by authorities, who have said only that both pilots of the Canada Air Express plane died and that they were based in Canada. Their identities were confirmed by Canadian news reports and by a college that one pilot attended.

Antoine Forest, one of the pilots who reportedly died in the LaGuardia plane collision.via FacebookThe Federal Aviation Administration, the National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies are investigating the crash. They will seek to determine how the truck was able to cut across the jet’s path moments after it touched down on the runway.

Here's what we know about the fatal crash.

At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, NTSB officials released preliminary information gleaned from the final three minutes of the plane’s cockpit voice recorder that showed that the fire truck was cleared to cross the runway 20 seconds before the crash.