CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin March 5, 2015 20:04:00
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. you're a pilot. how difficult is it for you to know precisely whether it's safe to land? >> well, there is a lot of instrumentation at an airport that give you up-to-date real-time data what is going on the wind c...