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

A passenger plane was involved in a deadly smash-up at the Queens airport Sunday — the same date in 1992 that a jet crashed, killing 27 souls, as it attempted to take off from travel hub in a snowstorm.

On March 22, 1992, Cleveland-bound USAir Flt. 405 tumbled off the runway and spiraled into Flushing Bay, killing more than two dozen of the 51 people on board, including the pilot, the New York Times reported at the time.

“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.

“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 and two cops.

Both Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Port Authority Executive Director Kathryn Garcia appeared to reference the earlier crash when addressing the latest tragedy.

“I know that this crash has shaken New Yorkers across the five boroughs, whether they are traveling today or simply watching from home, especially since it’s the first fatal crash at LaGuardia in more than 30 years,” said Mamdani at a Monday afternoon press conference.

Flt. 405’s route in 1992 began in Jacksonville and arrived in the Big Apple as part of a layover at LGA. But thanks to accumulating ice on the plane’s wings, it never made it to its final destination and plunged into the water.

Some passengers who only suffered minor injuries from the crash likely drowned as a result of “confusion, disorientation or entrapment or a combination of these factors,” the National Transportation Safety Board said in its report on the crash at the time.

Flt. 405 passenger Kendra St. Charles, who died from a stroke last year, had described her own harrowing tale of survival in a 2022 interview with the Akron Beacon Journal.

“The aircraft climbed to 40 feet off the ground, then the left engine stalled, causing the plane to dip to the left. And then we dipped to the right a little bit as the pilot was trying to straighten it up,” she said.

“Then we did a severe left, causing the aircraft to do a cartwheel down the runway.”

St. Charles briefly lost consciousness, and when she woke up, she was upside-down and still stuck in her seat under water.

She was able to unbuckle her seatbelt and get to surface where she made her way toward the light on the runway. An unidentified man helped her once she climbed onto icy rocks and was later rushed to the hospital by emergency workers, according to the newspaper. 

“And I thought: Just get to the light. You’ll get help, and you’ll be fine,” she told the Beacon Journal. 

The Air Canada crash brought back painful memories for City Council Lynn Schulman, who worked for city’s emergency services public-information department when the 1992 chaos took place.

“On the night of March 22, 34 years ago, I responded lights and siren to the crash of USAir Flight 405, as the head of NYCEMS Public Information,” Schulman said in a statement Monday. 

“I will never forget both the lives lost and the bravery of our first responders during that tragic event.”

Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy