A shocking new twist has come to light regarding the LaGuardia airport crash that left the Air Canada flight's pilot and co-pilot dead.
Federal authorities are now investigating to see if an air traffic controller at the LaGuardia Airport was forced to leave their console to use an emergency landline in the moments leading up to the fatal collision between an Air Canada Express plane and a fire truck.
The inquiry is one of the several critical queries being pursued by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The NYT shared more about how it is trying to reconstruct the events of March 22. The crash arose when the plane hit a Port Authority vehicle while it was landing on the runway.
The collision marked the first fatal incident at the Queens airport in more than three decades.
Sources familiar with this investigation shared more about how the officials were looking into if the use of a crash phone impacted the controller's ability to monitor the runway during a cruical window of time.