SAN DIEGO — A veteran pilot with more than 40 years of experience says Sunday’s deadly crash at LaGuardia Airport was entirely avoidable — and believes the fault lies squarely in the control tower.
Robert Katz, a longtime commercial pilot and flight instructor, says the Air Canada flight involved in the crash had been cleared to land on Runway 4 when the air traffic controller began communicating with multiple other planes. Katz believes the distraction set the stage for disaster.
“This was, in my opinion, all controller error… rests squarely with the controller. No one else,” Katz said…