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LaGuardia Airport was closed for part of Monday after a deadly runway crash that killed two pilots.<\/p>\n
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A previous advisory<\/a> posted by the Federal Aviation Administration noted LaGuardia was planning to reopen with only a single runway rate.<\/p>\n At least 306 flights scheduled to leave LaGuardia and 297 scheduled arrivals have already been cancelled as of Monday just before 2 p.m. EDT, according to online tracker FlightAware.<\/p>\n Another 37 departures from LaGuardia were delayed on Monday, according to the tracker, as well as 61 flights to the Queens airport.<\/p>\n In another advisory<\/a> on Monday afternoon, the FAA also said to expect delays at John F. Kennedy International Airport, and approximately 11% of flights to and from the airport were delayed around 2 p.m., according to FlightAware.<\/p>\n The FAA separately issued a ground stop at Newark early Monday morning after the airport\u2019s air traffic control tower was evacuated due to a \u201cburning smell coming from an elevator,\u201d a spokesperson told multiple<\/a> outlets<\/a>.<\/p>\n The ground stop only lasted about an hour, but a second FAA advisory<\/a> warned pilots that flights could receive new expected departure clearance times.<\/p>\n At least 119 flights leaving Newark and 104 arriving at the airport were delayed as of 2 p.m. EDT, according to FlightAware.<\/p>\n Key Background<\/p>\n Around 11:40 p.m. EDT, a Jazz Aviation flight operating on behalf of Air Canada struck a firefighting vehicle at LaGuardia. The deadly collision killed the jet\u2019s two pilots and injured at least 39 people onboard the aircraft, as well as two first responders. The FAA issued a closure at the airport until at least 2 p.m. Monday afternoon. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement<\/a> on Monday. The mayor confirmed the airport remained closed, and advised travelers to \u201ccheck with their airline for the latest flight information before coming to the airport.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline LaGuardia Airport reopened at 2 p.m., the airport said in a statement on social media, although it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16521,1183,70195,1185,1087,9,12476,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-172573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-deadly-crash","tag-federal-aviation-administration","tag-flightaware","tag-john-f-kennedy-international-airport","tag-laguardia-airport","tag-new-york","tag-newark-international-airport","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}