Two air traffic controllers left work early the night an Air Canada regional jet smashed into a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport, killing two people in March, according to reports.
The Federal Aviation Administration is moving to fire the two controllers who left work about an hour before their shifts ended on March 22 — leaving two remaining controllers to handle more than twice the usual volume of traffic on the night of the deadly collision, the Wall Street Journal first reported.
That evening, the Air Canada regional jet barreled into the Port Authority fire truck while it was crossing the runway in a fiery collision that killed the two pilots in the cockpit and injured 39 others on board.
The two firefighters inside the fire truck were also injured, but ultimately survived and have been placed on leave…