Nearly 600 NYC flights into and out of LaGuardia Airport canceled after fatal crash 7%
By Evan Simko-Bednarski0%
3/23/2026, 8:19:08 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic and Negativity Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 20.8% saturation with 46 hits. Analysis detected 101 faulty-reasoning hits from 221 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 23% and a BS Rank of 7% (15,752 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 93.70% of the article peer group.
More than 600 flights into and out of LaGuardia were canceled Monday after the fatal crash on runway four, according to information complied by the website FlightAware.
Terminal B was largely empty Monday morning as the airport was under a ground-stop order while federal investigators combed the scene.
Flights began again shortly after 2 p.m., operating on runway 13/31 while investigators continued to examine the wreckage on runway 4/22.
Two pilots aboard an Air Canada jet inbound from Montreal died in the crash after the Mitsubishi CRJ-900 they were landing collided with a Port Authority fire truck that had been given clearance to cross the runway.
The airport closure left Gotham with only two major international airports Monday — and unrelated incidents slowed some travel into and out of Newark Airport as well.
The control tower at Newark was evacuated around 7:30 a.m.
Monday morning after reports of a “burning smell” from one of the facility’s elevators, an FAA spokesperson told the Daily News.
The resulting ground-stop ended after crews returned to the tower an hour later.
Mild delays persisted at Newark mid-morning after reports of a passenger with a medical emergency arriving at the airport.
Flights into and out of Kennedy Airport remained largely on time.
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