Pilots warned about safety at LaGuardia airport before fatal accident: ‘Do something’

Video shows moment when plane hits fire truck in New York Pilots who landed or took off at LaGuardia Airport, in New York, in the United States, made a series of complaints about safety months before an accident with deaths there. The alerts were recorded in a system managed by NASA. ✅ Follow the g1 international news channel on WhatsApp On Sunday (23), an Air Canada Express plane crashed into a fire truck on the airport runway. The accident killed the pilot and co-pilot and injured 41 people, including two employees who were in the truck. g1 found reports about LaGuardia in NASA’s aviation safety notification system. Records show pilots concerned about the risk of accidents at the airport. The warnings were first published by the American press and the British newspaper The Guardian. In one of the complaints, made in August 2025, a pilot stated that air traffic controllers did not provide adequate information about nearby aircraft. The same pilot criticized the pace of operations at LaGuardia and compared the terminal to Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington. Months earlier, a plane had collided with an Army helicopter in the air, leaving 67 people dead. “The controllers are overloaded,” he wrote. “Please do something.” In another report, from May 2025, a pilot stated that he had to go around during the approach because there was another aircraft still on the runway. The professional said that the plane was around 150 meters high when the maneuver was initiated to avoid the risk of collision. In June 2024, a pilot said he had received authorization to take off even with another aircraft on the runway. He said he tried to delay the operation for safety reasons. “The other aircraft had already taken off and passed the end of the runway when we started the takeoff run. But I don’t know why it needed to be so close. That turned out well, but I think we are overstepping the limits and an accident will happen sooner or later,” he wrote. READ ALSO ‘It’s a miracle’: flight attendant survives after having seat thrown 90 meters in plane crash in New York The death toll in a military plane crash in Colombia rises to 69 Trump says Iran gave a ‘great gift’ to the US in the oil and gas sector Incidents Air Canada Express plane remains on the runway one day after colliding with a fire truck at LaGuardia airport in New York Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images via AFP Sunday’s accident happened after a series of other cases involving near collisions at US airports. The records raised concerns about security in US air traffic control. In February 2023, a FedEx cargo plane and a Southwest aircraft with 128 people on board nearly collided mid-air in Austin, Texas. At the time, the two aircraft reached a distance of around 52 meters. In July 2024, two commercial planes were about 200 meters apart in Syracuse, New York. According to investigations, the air traffic controller allowed one aircraft to approach the runway while the other was taking off. Two months later, an Alaska Airlines plane with 182 people on board had to abort takeoff to avoid a collision with another aircraft at Nashville International Airport. As early as January 2025, an American Eagle plane collided with a United States military helicopter in Washington DC, near Reagan National Airport. In total, 67 people died. The following month, a commercial plane had to swerve to avoid a collision with a private jet at a Chicago airport. On March 17 of this year, an Alaska Airlines plane and a FedEx freighter almost collided at Newark Airport, New Jersey. The two aircraft were landing on intersecting runways, and one of them had to go over to avoid the crash. According to experts, overload in control operations and lack of personnel are among the factors that can cause tragedies in American aviation. VIDEOS: most watched on g1

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