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The airport is closed. the airport is closed. >> call 100, say again. >> tower, we have an aircraft off 31. please advise crash rescue laguardia airport is closed at this time. the pilots in that communication, they had no choice but to turn a different direction to go land at jfk maybe, maybe newark. ultimately it is in general -- to land when the runway is open in bad conditions. youre a pilot. how difficult is it for you to know precisely whether its safe to land? >> well, there is a lot of...

Runway 13 is closed. >> question. call 100 runway 13 is closed? >> 13 is closed. >> team red? >> sorry. aircraft off the runway. >> delta 10999 go around. >> 1999 going around. >> runway closed. >> call 100, say again. >> tower. we have an aircraft off 31. please advise crash rescue laguardia airport is closed at this time. >> that was all within about one minute. you can hear at the very end where they say we have an airplane off a runway and the airport is now closed at this moment. the contro...

>> to go on to 13. >> you copy runway 13 is closed. >> caller 100, runway 13 is closed. >> 13 is closed. >> aircraft off the runway. >> delta go around climb 18. >> going around. >> the airport is closed we have a 34. >> call 100, say again? >> you have an aircraft on 31 please advise crash rescue laguardia airport is closed at this time. >> for 13. >> laguardia tower, go around.

From right now, on says port authority and literally after they announced it i checked the american signs here and already flights started to pop up after 2:00 p.m. for the outbound. inbound still cancelled across the board. hundreds of people in line here at the american terminal at the delta terminal im sure just as bad. all of that confusion, all of that heart ache today and, fortunately, at least nobody serious injured. >> it could have been much worse, for sure. mary i want you to listen to...

But everybody a-ok. >> good news for sure. thank you, miguel marquez. miles, i want you to listen to some sound we heard from the air traffic control tower communicating with other planes that were in the air right as this was unfolding. listen. >> delta 1086. tower. >> call 1-3. tower. 1-3. tower. red team to go on to 1-3. tower. you copy. call 100. runway 13 is closed. >> question. call 100 runway 13 is closed? >> 13 is closed. >> team red? >> sorry. we have an aircraft on the runway. >> delta...

Left and banks into that berm and nearly into flushing bay. a very close call indeed. >> we dont know what caused the plane to lose control. >> we dont. we know the plane was coming in from atlanta. probably at somewhere around 150 miles per hour or so maybe a bit more or less but thats normal, but it is coming in on a runway that is notoriously short. in other words, anybody coming into laguardia knows this is a challenging airport and challenging runways in the best of conditions. if youre com...

Its close, the airport is closed. we got a 3-4. >> call 100, say again. >> an air krafl off 3-1 on the service road. please advice laguardia is closed at this time. >> if he comes up hes lacking fuel on the left side of his aircraft heavily. >> you said leaking fuel? >> a-firm the wing is ruptured. >> passengers describe the harrowing moments. >> we landed it started skiing it hit the side of the rail then 400 yards, next thing we knew it came to a halt. >> it was kind of like a state of shock. ...