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The agency's LaGuardia Airport Command (Building 137) was completed in 2010. [129] Emergency medical services are provided by North Shore University Hospital under contract to the Port Authority. Overlooking the approach end of runway 4 is Planeview Park, a public park operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
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New York's LaGuardia Airport (Delano and Aldrich, 1939) contained many features common in the modern designs: two-level layout for separation between departing and arriving passengers, "spine" concourse extending to the both sides of the building, "dispatcher booths" as precursors to the airport gates. [22]
Delta Air Lines Flight 554, a McDonnell Douglas MD-88 was on an early evening ILS/DME approach to runway 13, when right before touchdown, the right wing struck approach lights, then struck the runway and sheared off the landing gear. The plane skidded down the runway for 2,700 feet (900 yd; 820 m).
The climbing flight path along the extended runway centerline which begins at takeoff and continues to at least 1/2 mile beyond the runway's departure end and not less than 300 feet below the traffic pattern altitude. The names of the legs are logical and based on the relative wind as seen looking down a runway facing into the wind.
A typical runway safety area, marked in brown color. A runway safety area (RSA) or runway end safety area (RESA, if at the end of the runway) is defined as "the surface surrounding the runway prepared or suitable for reducing the risk of damage to airplanes in the event of an undershoot, [1] overshoot, or excursion from the runway."
USAir Flight 5050 was a passenger flight that crashed on takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York. As the plane took off from LaGuardia's runway 31, the plane drifted to the left. After hearing a loud bang, the pilots attempted to reject the takeoff, but were unable to stop the