The accident at LaGuardia has raised questions about whether the minimum standard of two air traffic controllers on overnight shifts is sufficient. By Karoun Demirjian Reporting from Washington The ...

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In 20 seconds on the night of March 22, the seamless sequence of arrivals, departures, and holds at LaGuardia Airport—along with all their required calls and responses—was upended. In that brief ...

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Two pilots were killed at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night after an Air Canada jet struck a Port Authority vehicle on the ground while landing, officials said. More than 40 passengers, ...

Decades of narrowly-avoided disasters and repeated warnings from pilots at New York City airports all but foretold the recent fatal collision on a LaGuardia runway, according to multiple news reports.