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LaGuardia pilots have complained about close calls for years: "Do something"

Home - CBSNews.com·@Cbsnews·2 months ago
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For years, pilots have complained about controller miscommunication and close calls with ground vehicles at New York's LaGuardia Airport, according to reports filed in publicly available databases. CBS News reviewed dozens of reports dating back three decades about the airport, where a deadly collision occurred earlier this week."Please do something," an airline captain who experienced what he deemed was a close call with another aircraft wrote last summer in NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System, where reports are filed anonymously and can take months to be posted publicly. The captain reported that air traffic control failed to provide guidance about a departing flight that crossed their runway about 10 seconds before he landed."The pace of operations is building in LGA. The controllers are pushing the line.…

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