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Airport
Code	KLGA
Name	LaGuardia Airport
Region	North America
Territory	United States
Location	East Elmhurst, Queens, New York
Elevation	6.400800 m21 ft
Coordinates	40° 46' 34" N, 73° 52' 25" W
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BS
Tag(s)	Bird Strike

RE
Tag(s)	Engineered Materials Arresting System

EMAS equipped
Rwy(s)	13, 22

LaGuardia Airport

ICAO: KLGA IATA: LGA

Description

Airport serving the city of New York, NY, USA.

Climatology

Humid “subtropical” climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) - characterized by hot, humid summers and cool winters. Significant amounts of precipitation occur in all seasons in most areas. Winter rainfall (and sometimes snowfall) is associated with large storms that the westerlies steer from west to east. Most summer rainfall occurs during thunderstorms.

Maps

Terrain

Airport Layout

Hazards

• Bird Strike, is common and can be a significant threat to aircraft safety. For smaller aircraft, significant damage may be caused to the aircraft structure and all aircraft, especially jet-engined ones, are vulnerable to the loss of thrust which can follow the ingestion of birds into engine air intakes, which has caused a number of fatal accidents.

• Engineered Materials Arresting System, uses a specially installed surface which quickly stops any aircraft that moves on it and is installed at the end of runways to reduce the extent, and associated risks, of any overrun off the end of a runway

Accidents & Serious Incidents at or in vicinity of KLGA

• A320, vicinity LaGuardia New York USA, 2009 (BS LOC AW) (On 15 January 2009, approaching 3000 feet agl following a daytime take-off in VMC from LaGuardia Airport, NY, an Airbus A320-200 experienced an almost complete loss of thrust in both engines after encountering a flock of Canada Geese and was subsequently ditched on the Hudson River about 8.5 miles from airport. The ditching was completed successfully. Of the 150 passengers including the crew, one flight attendant and four passengers were seriously injured and the aircraft was substantially damaged.)
• B738 / CRJ1, New York La Guardia USA, 2007 (HF RI) (On 5 July 2007, in daylight and good visibility, a Comair CRJ100 on an outbound scheduled service flight was cleared by a GND Controller to taxi across active runway 22 on which a Delta AL Boeing 737-800 also operating a scheduled service flight had already been cleared to land by the (TWR) local controller. The crossing to be made did not allow the CRJ100 crew to see up the runway towards the landing threshold until they had almost completed the crossing. When they did see the by then landed B738 coming towards them, they immediately increased thrust on the single operating engine to accelerate clear. The FAA account of the incident classified the incursion at low risk with a 3200 ft minimum separation between the two aircraft.)
• F100, vicinity La Guardia NY USA, 2003 (BS) (On 4 September 2003, an American Airlines Fokker F100 hit five Canada Geese, just after becoming airborne from New York La Guardia airport, with resultant failure of the No 2 engine and substantial airframe damage. The aircraft carried out an uneventful diversion to New York JFK.)