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Here's what investigators say happened in the three minutes before the crashpublished at 19:30 GMT 24 March

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Official details cockpit voice recorder audio

The news conference at LaGuardia Airport just took us through a detailed timeline of the three minutes leading up to Sunday's Air Canada plane crash, including what investigators have heard on the cockpit voice recorder.

Here is a full timeline of what investigators say happened:

3 minutes, 7 seconds - Air Canada pilots are instructed to contact LaGuardia tower

2 minutes, 45 seconds - Aircraft lowers its landing gear

2 minutes, 22 seconds - Flight crew checks in with LaGuardia tower

2 minutes, 17 seconds - Tower clears plane to land on runway 4

1 minutes, 12 seconds - Flight crew confirms landing checklist complete

1 minute, 3 seconds - Airport vehicle makes transmission to the tower, but transmission was "stepped on" by another unidentified radio transmission

54 seconds - Flight crew acknowledges plane was 500 feet (152m) above the ground and on a stable approach

40 seconds - LaGuardia tower asks which vehicle needed to cross a runway

28 seconds - Truck 1 makes radio transmission to the tower

25 seconds - Truck 1 requests to cross runway 4

20 seconds - Tower clears Truck 1 to cross runway 4

9 seconds - Tower instructs Truck 1 to stop

8 seconds - Sound consistent with airplane landing

4 seconds - Tower again tells Truck 1 to stop moving

0 seconds - Recording ends