LaGuardia Airport has now experienced two tragedies exactly 34 years apart.

A passenger plane crashed as it attempted to take off from the Queens travel hub in a snowstorm on March 22, 1992.

The Cleveland-bound USAir flight tumbled off the runway and spiraled into Flushing Bay, killing 27 of the 51 people on board, including the pilot, the New York Times reported at the time.

Rescue workers and emergency vehicles surrounding the wreckage of USAir Flight 405, partially submerged in water, with a crane preparing to remove it.

Emergency crews inspect damage from USAir Flight 405 which crashed at LaGuardia Airport on March 23, 1992.
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“Every night, I close my eyes and I keep seeing and hearing the people screaming,” survivor Robert Main Jr., an executive with Lenscrafters, told the newspaper.

Debris hangs from the damaged front of an Air Canada Express jet after colliding with a Port Authority fire truck.

An Air Canada jet and a Port Authority fire truck after colliding on the runway at LaGuardia Airport.

Air Canada jet seen damaged on the runway at LaGuardia Airport after a collision with a fire truck.

“And I keep feeling the heat of the fire. I’ve washed my hair a thousand times, and it still smells of jet fuel.”

LaGuardia faced another tragedy late Sunday when an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck while landing, killing the pilot and co-pilot while injuring scores of passengers.