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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash

people stand near a crashed plane on a tarmac
Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board investigate the site on Monday, where an Air Canada jet came to rest after colliding with a Port Authority fire truck at LaGuardia airport in New York. Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP

Pilot safety concerns about New York’s LaGuardia airport were filed to aviation officials months before Sunday’s collision between an airplane and a fire truck left two pilots dead and 41 other people hospitalized.

According to the aviation safety reporting system administered by the US space agency Nasa, a pilot using the airport in the summer wrote, “Please do something,” after air traffic controllers failed to provide appropriate guidance about multiple nearby aircraft.

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