2 LaGuardia air traffic controllers left work an hour early before deadly crash: AP source

The controllers who left could have provided crucial backup when the tower got busy if they had remained at the airport until the end of their shifts because they were scheduled to be there past when the crash happened, the official said.

The pair face the sack after clocking off an hour before their shift was meant to end the night an Air Canada jet smashed into a fire truck crossing the runway, killing both pilots.

Two air traffic controllers could be fired for leaving the tower at New York’s LaGuardia Airport about an hour early on the night that an Air Canada jet smashed into a fire truck crossing the runway, killing both pilots

Two air traffic controllers could be fired for leaving the tower at New York’s LaGuardia Airport about an hour early on the night that an Air Canada jet smashed into a fire truck crossing the runway, killing both pilots

2 LaGuardia air traffic controllers left work an hour early before deadly crash, AP source says  AP News

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Two air-traffic controllers left work early just hours before an Air Canada Express regional jet slammed into a firetruck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in March, killing two pilots and injuring several others. Federal aviation officials have moved to fire the two controllers who left the tower about an hour before th