{"id":398688,"date":"2026-04-03T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/laguardia-controller-stepped-away-before-deadly-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:30:18","slug":"investigators-laguardia-controller-may-have-stepped-away-before-deadly-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=398688","title":{"rendered":"Investigators: LaGuardia Controller May Have Stepped Away Before Deadly Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New details in the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/laguardia-airport\/\"  >LaGuardia Airport<\/a><\/span> (LGA) crash investigation suggest that federal investigators are examining whether an overnight air traffic controller may have stepped away from his control console to use an emergency &#8220;crash phone&#8221; just moments before an Air Canada Express jet struck a Port Authority fire truck. The resulting incident resulted in dozens of injuries and the tragic death of both pilots on board the aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incident quickly turned tragic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,7698,1179,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-crash-investigation","category-laguardia-airport","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398689,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398688\/revisions\/398689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}