By August 28, the FAA moved to terminate two air traffic controllers at LaGuardia who left work early on the night of a fatal March collision between an aircraft and a fire truck that killed two pilots. Controllers interviewed described the workload that night as busy.
Two air traffic controllers at LaGuardia Airport left their posts approximately one hour early on the night of a deadly Air Canada crash that hit a fire truck, with the FAA seeking to fire them; by 2026-08-28, the incident sparked broader scrutiny of air traffic control procedures after a separate Marine One communication failure near the White House.