LaGuardia Airport safety profile
53 recorded occurrences at or near LaGuardia Airport (1992–2026): 14 at the airport, 39 nearby; 8 fatal, 41 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 134 runway incursions at this airport, including 3 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2018-03-11 — Airbus Helicopters AS350 B2, LIBERTY HELICOPTERS INC (5 fatalities) — 5.7 km
- 2026-03-23 — MHI RJ Aviation (formerly Bombardier) CL-600-2D24 (CRJ-900), Air Canada Express (2 fatalities) — 0.6 km
- 2011-10-04 — DUDLEY PAUL P (2 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2020-10-04 (1 fatalities) — 6.2 km
- 2019-06-10 — N200bk Inc (1 fatalities) — 9.4 km
- 2016-05-27 — Republic P-47D, American Airpower Museum (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2025-10-02 — Endeavor Air — 0.9 km
- 2024-09-04 — 0.0 km
- 2023-01-02 — Delta Connection — 0.0 km
- 2022-07-07 — DELTA AIR LINES INC — 0.0 km
- 2020-01-08 — American Airlines — 0.1 km
- 2019-05-15 — 0.0 km
Runways
- 04/22: 7,002 ft, ASP, lighted
- 13/31: 7,002 ft, ASP, lighted
Weather patterns
- Fog: 31.496 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 31.396 days/year
- Snow: 20.997 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.045% of observations
- Crosswind >25kt: 0% of observations
Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.