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LaGuardia Airport
IATA: LGA ICAO: KLGA FAA LID: LGA
WMO: 72503
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of New York
Operator Port Authority of New York and
New Jersey
Serves New York City
LaGuardia Airport
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LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA, ICAO: KLGA, FAA LID:
LGA) /lwrdi/ is an airport in the northern part of the
New York City borough of Queens. The airport is on the
waterfront of Flushing Bay and Bowery Bay, in East Elmhurst
and borders the neighborhoods of East Elmhurst, Astoria, and
Jackson Heights.
The New York City metropolitan area's JFK International,
LaGuardia, and Newark Liberty International airports combine
to create the largest airport system in the United States, second
in the world in terms of passenger traffic, and first in the world
in terms of total flight operations. In 2011 the airport handled
24.1 million passengers;
[3]
In 2013, LaGuardia Airport had a
strong growth in passenger traffic; about 26.7 million
passengers used the airport, a 6.6 percent increase from the
previous year.
[4]
JFK handled 50.4 million
[1]
and Newark
handled 35 million,
[1]
a total of about 112 million travelers
using New York airports; the second highest of any city in the
world after London, United Kingdom.
The airport is a hub for Delta Air Lines
[5]
and a focus city for
American Airlines and regional affiliate American Eagle.
Coordinates: 404638.1N 735221.4W
Location East Elmhurst, Queens, New
York City, United States
Hub for Delta Air Lines
Focus city for American Airlines
Elevation AMSL 21 ft / 6 m
Coordinates 404638.1N 735221.4W
Website www.laguardiaairport.com
(http://www.laguardiaairport.com
)
Maps
FAA Airport Diagram
LaGuardia is the busiest airport in the United States without
any non-stop service to Europe.
[6]
A perimeter rule prohibits
nonstop flights to or from points beyond 1,500 statute miles
(2,400 km). Exceptions to the perimeter rule are flights on
Saturdays and flights to Denver. Most transcontinental and
international flights use JFK or Newark.
[7]
The airport was originally named Glenn H. Curtiss Airport
after aviation pioneer Glenn Hammond Curtiss
[8]
then renamed
North Beach Airport,
[9]
The official name after New York
City's takeover and reconstruction was New York Municipal
AirportLaGuardia Field, then in 1953 named solely
"LaGuardia Airport" for Fiorello La Guardia, the mayor of
New York when the airport was built.
LaGuardia has also been criticized for some of its outdated
facilities. Vice President Joe Biden compared LaGuardia to a
"third world country" and the airport has been ranked in
numerous customer surveys as the worst in the United
States.
[10]
Among pilots, it is referred to as "USS LaGuardia",
because the runways are short and surrounded by water, thus
giving the feel of attempting to land on an aircraft carrier.
[11]
Contents
Location within New York City
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
04/22 7,001 2,134 Asphalt/concrete
13/31 7,003 2,135 Asphalt/concrete
Helipads
Number Length Surface
ft m
H1 60 18 Asphalt
H2 60 18 Asphalt
Statistics (2013)
1 History
1.1 Construction
1.2 Later development
1.3 DeltaUS Airways slot swap
2 Terminals
2.1 Terminal A
2.2 Terminal B
2.3 Terminal C
2.4 Terminal D
2.5 Terminal redevelopment
3 Airlines and destinations
4 Statistics
5 Other facilities
6 Ground transportation
6.1 Bus
6.2 Taxi
6.3 Limousine
6.4 Subway
7 Accidents and incidents
8 See also
9 References
LGA
Aircraft operations (ACI)
[1]
371,565
Passengers (ACI)
[1]
26,722,183
Source:
Federal Aviation Administration
[2]
The three major airports
serving New York City:
1) JFK International (JFK)
2) LaGuardia (LGA)
3) Newark Liberty
International (EWR)
Floyd Bennett Field
(193172)
10 External links
History
Construction
The current site of the airport was originally used by the Gala Amusement Park,
owned by the Steinway family. It was razed and transformed in 1929 into a 105-
acre (42 ha) private flying field named Glenn H. Curtiss Airport after the pioneer
Long Island aviator, and later called North Beach Airport.
[9]
The initiative to develop the airport for commercial flights began with an outburst
by New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia (in office from 1934 to 1945) upon the
arrival of his TWA flight at Newark Airport the only commercial airport serving
the New York City region at the time as his ticket said "New York". He
demanded to be taken to New York, and ordered the plane to be flown to
Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, giving an impromptu press conference to reporters
along the way. He urged New Yorkers to support a new airport within their city.
[9]
American Airlines accepted La Guardia's offer to start a pilot program of
scheduled flights to Floyd Bennett, although the program failed after several months
because of Newark's better proximity to Manhattan. La Guardia went as far as to
offer police escorts to airport limousines in an attempt to get American Airlines to
continue operating the pilot program.
LaGuardia Airport as seen
from runway 22 in 2010.
Note both the new and old
control towers.
During the Floyd Bennett experiment La Guardia and American executives began an alternative plan to build a new
airport in Queens, where it could take advantage of the new QueensMidtown
Tunnel to Manhattan. The existing North Beach Airport was an obvious location,
but much too small for the sort of airport that was being planned. With backing and
assistance from the Works Progress Administration, construction began in 1937.
[12]
Building on the site required moving landfill from Rikers Island, then a garbage
dump, onto a metal reinforcing framework. The framework below the airport still
causes magnetic interference on the compasses of outgoing aircraft: signs on the
airfield warn pilots about the problem.
[13]
Because of American's pivotal role in the development of the airport, LaGuardia
gave the airline extra real estate during the airport's first year of operation,
including four hangars (an unprecedented amount of space at the time). American
also opened its first Admirals Club (and the first private airline club in the world)
at the airport in 1939. The club's space was originally a large office space reserved for the mayor, but after
receiving criticism in the press, LaGuardia offered to lease out the space, and American vice president Red Mosier
immediately accepted the offer.
[14]
The airport was dedicated on October 15, 1939, as the New York Municipal Airport and opened for business on
December 2 of that year.
[9]
It cost New York City $23 million to turn the tiny North Beach Airport into a 550-acre
(220 ha) modern facility. Not everyone was as enthusiastic as La Guardia about the project, some regarded it as a
$40 million boondoggle. But the public was fascinated by the very idea of air travel, and thousands traveled to the
airport, paid the dime fee, and watched the airliners take off and land. Two years later these fees and their
associated parking had already provided $285,000, and other non-travel related incomes (food, etc.) were another
$650,000 a year. The airport was soon a huge financial success. A smaller airport located in adjacent Jackson
Heights, Holmes Airport, was unable to prevent the expansion of the larger airport and it closed in 1940.
Welcome to New York sign
President John F. Kennedy
arrives at LaGuardia Airport
in 1961
Newark Airport began renovations, but could not keep up with the new Queens
airport, which TIME called "the most pretentious land and seaplane base in the
world." Even before the project was completed LaGuardia had won commitments
from the five largest airlines (Pan American Airways, American, United, Eastern
Air Lines and Transcontinental & Western Air) that they would begin using the new
field as soon as it opened.
[15]
The airport was used during World War II as a
training facility for aviation technicians and as a logistics field. Transatlantic
landplane airline flights started in late 1945; some continued after Idlewild opened
in July 1948, but the last ones shifted to Idlewild in April 1951.
Newspaper accounts alternately referred to the airfield as New York Municipal
Airport and LaGuardia Field until the modern name was officially applied when the airport moved to Port of New
York Authority control under a lease with New York City on June 1, 1947.
LaGuardia opened with four runways at 45-degree angles to each other,
[16]
the
longest (13/31) being 6,000 ft (1,800 m). Runway 18/36 was closed soon after a
United DC-4 ran off the south end in 1947; runway 9/27 (4500 ft) was closed
around 1958, allowing LaGuardia's terminal to expand northward after 1960. Circa
1961 runway 13/31 was shifted northeastward to allow construction of a parallel
taxiway (such amenities being unknown when LGA was built) and in 196566 both
remaining runways were extended to their present 7,000 ft (2,100 m).
The April 1957 Official Airline Guide shows 283 weekday fixed-wing departures
from LaGuardia: 126 American, 49 Eastern, 33 Northeast, 31 TWA, 29 Capital and
15 United. American's flights included 26 nonstops to Boston and 27 to Washington
National (mostly Convair 240s).
[17]
Jet flights (United 727s to Cleveland and
Chicago) started on June 1, 1964.
Old control tower at
LaGuardia Airport
constructed in 1962
Later development
Although LaGuardia was a large airport for the era in which it was built, it soon
became too small. Starting in 1968 general aviation aircraft were charged heavy
fees to operate from LaGuardia during peak hours, driving many GA operators to
airports such as Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, New Jersey. The increase in
traffic at LaGuardia and safety concerns prompted the closure of nearby Flushing
Airport in 1984. Also in 1984, to further combat overcrowding at LGA, the Port
Authority instituted a Sunday-thru-Friday "perimeter rule" banning nonstop flights
from LaGuardia to cities more than 1,500 miles (2,400 km) away; at the time,
Denver was the only such city with nonstop flights, and it became the only
exception to the rule. (In 1986 Western Airlines hoped to fly 737-300s nonstop to
Salt Lake City and unsuccessfully challenged the rule in federal court). Later, the
Port Authority also moved to connect JFK and Newark Airport to regional rail networks with the AirTrain Newark
and AirTrain JFK, in an attempt to make these more distant airports competitive with LaGuardia.
[18]
In addition to
these local regulations, the FAA also limited the number of flights and types of aircraft that could operate at
LaGuardia (see 14 CFR 193).
LaGuardia's traffic continued to grow. By 2000, the airport routinely experienced overcrowding delays, many more
than an hour long. That year, Congress passed legislation to revoke the federal traffic limits on LaGuardia by 2007.
The reduced demand for air travel following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City quickly
slowed LaGuardia's traffic growth, helping to mitigate the airport's delays. Ongoing Port Authority investments to
renovate the Central Terminal Building and improve the airfield layout have also made the airport's operations more
efficient in recent years.
FAA approved Instrument Departure Procedure "Whitestone Climb" and the "Expressway Visual Approach to
Runway 31" which both overfly Citi Field. In the name of safety when New York Mets games are in progress, these
procedures are not supposed to be used, but are anyway.
New LaGuardia Airport
Control Tower at Sunset
In late 2006, construction began to replace the air traffic control tower built in
1962 with a more modern one. The tower began operations on October 9, 2010.
[19]
DeltaUS Airways slot swap
On August 12, 2009, Delta Air Lines and US Airways announced a landing slot and
terminal swap in separate press releases. Under the swap plan, US Airways would
have given Delta 125 operating slot pairs at LaGuardia. US Airways, in return,
would have received 42 operating slot pairs at Ronald Reagan National Airport in
Washington, D.C., and be granted the authority to begin service from the US to So
Paulo, Brazil and Tokyo, Japan. When the swap plan was complete, Delta Shuttle
operations would have moved from the Marine Air Terminal to Terminal C (the
present US Airways terminal), and Terminals C and D would have been connected
together. US Airways Shuttle flights would have moved to the Marine Air
Terminal, and mainline US Airways flights would have moved to Terminal D (the
present Delta terminal).
[20][21]
The United States Department of Transportation
announced that they would approve the Delta/US Airways transaction under the
condition that they sell slots to other airlines. Delta and US Airways dropped the slot swap deal in early July 2010
and both airlines have filed a court appeal.
[22]
In May 2011, both airlines announced that they will resubmit their
proposal of the slot swap to the US DOT. It was tentatively approved by the US DOT on July 21, 2011.
[23]
The slot
swap received final approval from the US DOT on October 10, 2011.
[24]
On December 16, 2011, Delta Air Lines announced plans to open a new domestic hub at LaGuardia Airport. The
investment will be the largest single expansion by any carrier at LaGuardia in decades, with total flights increasing
by more than 60 percent, and total destinations by more than 75 percent. By summer 2013, Delta will operate 264
daily flights between LaGuardia and more than 60 cities, more than any other airline.
[25]
Marine Air Terminal in 1974
Delta will invest $100 million to renovate terminals C and D in LaGuardia, where it will operate a total of 32 gates.
A 600-foot connector bridge has been built, linking the two terminals. Delta also will convert the existing US
Airways lounge in Terminal C to a Delta Sky Club, while continuing to operate its current Sky Club in Terminal D.
US Airways will build a new club, placed next door to their old lounge.
Terminals
LaGuardia has four terminals connected by buses and walkways. Signage throughout the terminals was designed by
Paul Mijksenaar.
[26]
As with the other Port Authority airports, some terminals at LaGuardia are managed and
maintained by airlines themselves. Terminals C and D and most of Terminal A are operated by Delta Air Lines,
with Terminal B under direct Port Authority operation.
Terminal A
The Marine Air Terminal (MAT) was the airport's original terminal for overseas
flights. The waterside terminal was designed to serve the fleet of flying boats, or
Clippers, of Pan American Airways, America's main international airline
throughout the 1930s and 1940s. When a Clipper would land in Long Island Sound,
it would taxi up to a dock where passengers would disembark into the terminal.
During World War II new four-engine land planes were developed, and flying
boats stopped carrying scheduled passengers out of New York after 1947. The last
Pan American flight left the terminal in February 1952, bound for Bermuda.
The terminal is home of the largest mural created during the Roosevelt-era Works
Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Arts Program. Created by New York artist
James Brooks, the mural, Flight, encircles the upper rotunda walls, telling the story of man's conquest of the
heavens up through 1942 when the work was completed. During the 1950s, many WPA artists were thought to be in
collusion with Communists. Several works of art that had been created for post offices and other public facilities
Terminal B LaGuardia
Marketplace
were therefore destroyed. Likewise, Flight was completely painted over with wall paint by the Port Authority of
New York & New Jersey. In the late 1970s, Geoffrey Arend, an aviation historian and author of Great Airports:
LaGuardia, mounted a campaign to restore the mural to its original splendor. With the help of Brooks, LaGuardia
Airport manager Tim Peirce, and donations from Reader's Digest founders DeWitt Wallace and Laurance
Rockefeller, Flight was rededicated in 1980.
In 1986, Pan Am restarted flights at the MAT with the purchase of New York Air's shuttle service between Boston,
New York City, and Washington, D.C. In 1991, Delta Air Lines bought the Pan Am Shuttle and subsequently started
service from the MAT on September 1. In 1995, the MAT was designated as a historic landmark. A$7 million
restoration was completed in time for the airport's 65th anniversary of commercial flights on December 2, 2004.
Along with the Delta Shuttle, general aviation operates from the terminal through fixed based operator Sheltair.
Terminal B
The Central Terminal Building (CTB) serves most of LaGuardia's domestic
airlines. It is six blocks long, consisting of a four-story central section, two three-
story wings and four concourses (A, B, C, and D) with 40 aircraft gates.
[27]
The
$36 million facility designed by Harrison & Abramovitz was dedicated on April
17, 1964.
[28]
Delta and US Airways left the CTB in 1983 and 1992 respectively to
their own dedicated terminals on the east side of the airport. The Port Authority and
various airlines have carried out a $340 million improvement project in the 1990s
and early 2000s (decade) to expand and renovate the existing space.
[27]
Terminal C
Terminal C
Terminal C, the 300,000-square-foot (28,000 m
2
), designed by William Nicholas Bodouva + Associates Architects
and Planners, was opened September 12, 1992, at a cost of $250 million. The original tenant was intended to be
Eastern Airlines, but when Eastern was forcibly bankrupt in an effort by parent Texas
Air Corporation to merge its assets with that of sister airline Continental Airlines,
Continental assumed the leases. Continental never moved in, as it sold its leases and
most of its LaGuardia slots to US Airways as part of Continental's bankruptcy
restructuring.
[29]
Trump Shuttle, successor to Eastern Airlines Shuttle, also occupied
the terminal before becoming part of US Airways. The Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey says that the terminal handles approximately 50% of regional airliner
traffic at LaGuardia.
[27]
As a result of a slot-swap deal between Delta Air Lines and US Airways, as of July
2012, Delta occupies the majority of the terminal (gates C15C34). Along with Delta, WestJet operates from
terminal C from a Delta-owned gate (C34), while US Airways now only operates from gates C35C44.
Terminal D
Terminal D, opened on June 19, 1983, at a cost of approximately $90 million and designed by William Nicholas
Bodouva + Associates Architects. It was designed to accommodate Delta's new Boeing 757 and Boeing 767
aircraft.
[30]
The terminal was connected to Terminal C by a 600-foot walkway that opened in early 2013, part of Delta's effort
to build a hub at LaGuardia.
Terminal redevelopment
In April 2010, Port Authority director Christopher Ward announced that the agency had hired consultants to explore
a full demolition and rebuilding of LaGuardia's Central Terminal. The project would create a unified, modern, and
efficient plan for the airport, currently an amalgam of decades of additions and modifications. The project, expected
to cost 2.4 billion US dollars, will include the demolition of the existing central terminal building and its four
concourses, garage, Hangar 1, and frontage roads; building temporary facilities; and designing and building a new
central terminal building.
[31]
The rebuilding would be staged in phases in order to maintain operations throughout
the project.
[32]
Construction of the new terminal is expected to begin in 2014.
[33]
Proposals were due January 31, 2012. Patrick Foye, executive director of the Port Authority, said, "It's got a quaint,
nostalgic but unacceptable kind of 1940s, 1950s feel that's just not acceptable."
[34]
The Port Authority was seeing a
private company to develop and operate the replacement terminal with private funds, similar to how Delta operates
the other terminals at the airport. However, in January 2014, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan for the
state to oversee construction of the long-stalled new terminal project instead of the proposed public-private
partnership.
[35]
Airlines and destinations
Airlines Destinations Terminal(s)
Air Canada MontralTrudeau, TorontoPearson
B
(Concourse A)
Air Canada Express MontralTrudeau, Ottawa, TorontoPearson
B
(Concourse A)
AirTran Airways
operated by
Southwest Airlines
Akron/Canton, Atlanta (all end August 9, 2014)
B
(Concourse B)
American Airlines
ChicagoO'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami
Seasonal: Eagle/Vail, West Palm Beach
B
(Concourse D)
Seasonal: Eagle/Vail, West Palm Beach (Concourse D)
American Eagle
Charlottesville (VA), Columbus (OH), Dayton, Detroit, Fayetteville (AR),
Greensboro, Knoxville, Little Rock, Louisville, MontralTrudeau, Nashville,
Norfolk, Raleigh/Durham, Richmond, Roanoke, St. Louis, TorontoPearson,
Wilmington (NC)
Seasonal: Traverse City
B
(Concourse C)
Delta Air Lines
Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New
Orleans, Orlando, Sarasota, Tampa, West Palm Beach
Seasonal: Aruba, Bozeman (begins June 21, 2014),
[36]
Dallas/Fort Worth, Key
West
[37]
C, D
Delta Connection
Asheville, Bangor, Birmingham (AL), Buffalo, Burlington (VT), Charleston (SC),
Charlotte, Charlottesville (VA), Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbia (SC), Columbus
(OH), Dallas/Fort Worth, Dayton, Des Moines, Fort Myers, Grand Rapids,
Greenville/Spartanburg, Greensboro, Halifax, HoustonIntercontinental,
Indianapolis, Jacksonville (FL), Kansas City, Knoxville, Lexington, Louisville,
Madison, Manchester (NH), Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Montral
Trudeau, Nashville, Norfolk, Omaha, Pittsburgh, Portland (ME), Raleigh/Durham,
Richmond, Rochester (NY), Sarasota, Savannah, Syracuse, WashingtonDulles,
Wilmington (NC)
Seasonal: Bangor, Daytona Beach, Myrtle Beach, Nantucket, Orlando, Tampa,
Traverse City
C, D
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Delta Shuttle Boston, ChicagoO'Hare, WashingtonNational A
Frontier Airlines Cleveland (begins October 26, 2014), Denver
B
(Concourse B)
JetBlue Airways Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Orlando, Sarasota, Tampa, West Palm Beach
B
(Concourse A, B)
Southwest Airlines
Akron/Canton, Atlanta, ChicagoMidway, DallasLove (begins November 2, 2014),
Denver, HoustonHobby, Milwaukee, Nashville, St. Louis
B
(Concourse B)
B
Spirit Airlines ChicagoO'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Myrtle Beach
B
(Concourse B)
United Airlines
ChicagoO'Hare, Cleveland, Denver, HoustonIntercontinental
Seasonal: Aruba
B
(Concourse A, C)
United Express ChicagoO'Hare, Cleveland, WashingtonDulles
B
(Concourse A, C)
US Airways
Charlotte, Miami (begins August 19, 2014),
[38]
Philadelphia, WashingtonNational
C
US Airways
Express
Charlotte, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh C
US Airways Shuttle Boston, WashingtonNational C
Virgin America
DallasLove (begins October 28, 2014)
[39]
TBA
WestJet TorontoPearson C
Statistics
Busiest domestic routes from LGA (February 2013 January 2014)
[40]
Rank City Passengers Carriers
1 Chicago, Illinois (O'Hare) 1,316,000 American, Delta, Spirit, United
2 Atlanta, Georgia 1,115,000 AirTran, Delta, Southwest
3 Miami, Florida 748,000 American, Delta
4 Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas (DFW) 712,000 American, Delta, Spirit
5 Fort Lauderdale, Florida 708,000 Delta, JetBlue, Spirit
6 Charlotte, North Carolina 704,000 American, Delta, US Airways
7 Denver, Colorado 513,000 Delta, Frontier, Southwest, United
8 Detroit, Michigan 470,000 American, Delta, Spirit
9 Orlando, Florida 461,000 Delta, JetBlue
10 Washington, DC (National) 457,000 Delta, US Airways
Largest Airlines at LGA (12 months
ending January 2014)
[41]
Rank Airline Passengers
1 Delta Air Lines 10,596,532
2 American Airlines 4,976,511
3 US Airways 2,718,250
4 United Airlines 2,308,293
5
Southwest Airlines
1
1,995,413
6 JetBlue 1,432,134
7 Spirit Airlines 1,244,832
8 Air Canada 868,519
9 WestJet 312,256
10 Frontier Airlines 202,522
^1 Includes AirTran Airways.
Other facilities
When New York Air was in operation, its headquarters were in Hangar 5 at LaGuardia.
[42]
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department (PAPD) provides law enforcement to the
airport, its LaGuardia Airport Command is located in Building 137. Emergency medical services are provided by
North Shore University Hospital.
Ground transportation
20092012 Ford Escape
Hybrid from the Port
Authority
Bus
Several city bus lines link LGA to the New York City Subway and Long Island Rail
Road, with free transfers provided for MetroCard users making subway
connections. The buses are wheelchair accessible and are operated by MTA New
York City Transit and MTA Bus Company:
M60 Select Bus Service (All terminals)
Q47 (Terminal A (Marine Air Terminal) only)
Q48 (All terminals)
Q70 Limited (All terminals except Terminal A)
Q72 (All terminals except Terminal A)
There are also many private bus lines operating express buses to Manhattan, the Hudson Valley, and Long Island.
The Port Authority runs two free shuttle bus routes, which operate at all times except overnight hours, within the
airport connecting all terminals and parking lots.
Taxi
Taxicabs serving the airport are licensed by New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission (NYCTLC). The fares
within New York City are metered. Uniformed Taxi Dispatchers are available to assist passengers before they start
the rides.
[43]
The airport accessible directly from Grand Central Parkway.
[44]
Limousine
New York City's limousine services, which are also licensed by the NYCTLC, offer various rates ranging from
$40150 from LGA airport to Manhattan (excluding tips and tolls) in a sedan or limousine.
Subway
Currently, no New York City Subway routes service the airport directly, but provisions for a subway connection are
part of a 2014 long range rebuilding plan by its operator, the MTA.
[45]
A similar plan to bring BMT Astoria Line
service (N Q trains) to the airport was defeated in 2003.
[46]
Accidents and incidents
On February 1, 1957, Northeast Airlines Flight 823 crashed on takeoff into Rikers Island. Of 101 people
aboard, 21 were killed.
[47]
On February 3, 1959, American Airlines Flight 320 crashed on approach into the East River. Of 73 people
aboard, 65 were killed.
[48]
On December 16, 1960, TWA Flight 266, a Lockheed Super Constellation bound for La Guardia, collided with
a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 over Staten Island, killing all 128 people on board both airliners and 6 more
on the ground.
On January 4, 1971, Douglas C-47A N7 of the Federal Aviation Administration crashed on approach to
LaGuardia Airport. The aircraft was on a flight from JohnstownCambria County Airport, Johnstown,
Pennsylvania. The cause of the accident was wind shear.
[49]
On December 29, 1975, at 6:33 p.m. EST,
[50]
a bomb with the equivalent force of 25 sticks of dynamite
exploded in the main terminal, killing 11 and injuring 75. The victims included travelers, limousine drivers,
and airline employees. It was the deadliest bombing in New York City since the Wall Street bombing of
1920.
[51]
The bomb had been placed in a Trans World Airlines locker adjacent to a luggage carousel. The
force of the explosion wrecked luggage carousels and destroyed the terminal 's large metal doors and showered
the area with shards of metal and broken glass.
[51]
At the time, suspects included the FALN, the Jewish
Defense League, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and the Croatian nationalist Zvonko Busic; two
similar bombings at New York's Grand Central Terminal previously had been attributed to Croatians.
[51]
No
one ever claimed credit for the bombing or was arrested for it, and it remains unsolved.
[51][52]
On September 21, 1989, USAir Flight 5050 bound for Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in Charlotte,
North Carolina, crashed after aborting takeoff and rolling off the end of the runway into the East River. The
plane broke into three pieces, and two passengers died as a result.
[53]
On March 22, 1992, USAir Flight 405 bound for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland, Ohio,
crashed on takeoff at LaGuardia because of icing on its wings. Of 51 people aboard, 27 were killed.
[54]
On March 2, 1994, Continental Airlines Flight 705 to Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado,
aborted takeoff in a snowstorm and skidded down the runway into a ditch.
[55]
On March 21, 2003, Authorities discovered a suspicious package containing an unknown powdery substance at
LaGuardia Airport and partially evacuated the main terminal. 10 people were apparently sickened by the
unknown substance and were treated at the scene. The substance was discovered at about 1 p.m. during the
search of a handbag at an American Airlines section of the terminal.
[56]
The media reported differing facts and
the story was removed from several sites leading to questions about what really happened.
[57]
On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 departing for Charlotte/Douglas International
Airport ditched in the Hudson River at a gradual angle after losing both engines as a result of multiple bird
strikes at an altitude of 3,000 feet (910 m); all 150 passengers (12 in first class and 138 in economy) and 5
crew members (2 pilots and 3 flight attendants) were successfully evacuated from a safe water ditch.
[58][59]
On July 22, 2013, Southwest Airlines Flight 345, originating from Nashville International Airport, had its nose
landing gear collapsed as the aircraft touched down onto runway 04. Of 150 people aboard, 6 passengers and 5
crews suffered injuries.
[60]
See also
New York World War II Army Airfields
References
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical
Research Agency.
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2010 North American final rankings (http://www.aci-na.org/stats/stats_traffic)
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External links
LaGuardia Airport (http://www.lga.aero) (official site)
LGA Airport Monitor (http://www4.passur.com/lga.html) (from Passur.com)
Transportation Methods for Getting to LaGuardia Airport (http://www.nysubway.com/airport/laguardia.html)
Using the subway/bus to cheaply get to LaGuardia Airport (http://vimeo.com/8975475)
LaGuardia Airport Car Services (https://islipairportlimocarservice.com/lga-airport-car-service.html)
FAA Airport Diagram (http://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/1406/00289AD.PDF) (PDF), effective May 29, 2014
New York State DOT Airport Diagram
(https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operating/opdm/aviation/repository/air_dir/lga.pdf) PDF
LaGuardia airport information (http://lga.airport-viewer.com) (from airport-viewer.com)
Resources for this airport:
AirNav airport information for KLGA (http://www.airnav.com/airport/KLGA)
ASN accident history for LGA (http://aviation-safety.net/database/airport/airport.php?id=LGA)
FlightAware airport information (http://flightaware.com/resources/airport/KLGA) and live flight tracker
(http://flightaware.com/live/airport/KLGA)
GlobalAir airport information for LGA (http://www.globalair.com/airport/apt.airport.aspx?
aptcode=LGA)
2010.
60. ^ "Cnn.com, Retrieved July 22, 2013" (http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/22/us/southwest-laguardia/index.html?hpt=hp_t1).
Cnn.com. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
NOAA/NWS latest weather observations (http://www.crh.noaa.gov/data/obhistory/KLGA.html)
SkyVector aeronautical chart for KLGA (http://skyvector.com/perl/code?id=KLGA&scale=2)
FAA current LGA delay information (http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/flyfaaindex.jsp?ARPT=LGA&p=0)
Heli Flights Heliports and Helipads near Manhattan (http://heliflights.net/Heli_Flights/NYC_helipads.html)
(New York City Helicopter landing pads)
New Q70 limited bus map and timetable (http://www.mta.info/busco/schedules/q070cur.pdf)
Service to Laguardia Airport, (http://islipairportlimocarservice.com/lga-airport-car-service.htmlCar)
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