Category Archives: airplane crash

Port Authority Air Traffic Control: Birds of a Different Feather

By Roz Hamlett, Portfolio Editor Air traffic controllers orchestrate the movements of airplanes in the air and on airport runways and taxiways to protect passengers and aircraft, while getting travelers to their destinations as efficiently as possible. But they aren’t the … Continue reading

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Port Authority Aviation: A Save at LaGuardia Airport

By Cheryl Albiez, Media Relations Staff A few days before Halloween, vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence and 47 other passengers got quite the scare when their plane overshot a LaGuardia Airport runway.  Thankfully, everyone onboard escaped injury and the plane incurred no … Continue reading

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A Halloween Tale: Kennedy Airport, Flight 401 and the Walking Dead

“The boundaries between life and death are at best shadowy and vague.  Who shall say where one ends and where the other begins?”  — Edgar Allen Poe By Portfolio Editor Roz Hamlett Unlike many ghost tales, this one – which originated … Continue reading

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