CNN is reporting that pilots repeatedly pleaded with NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System to address safety concerns in New York’s LaGuardia Airport for months before a deadly airplane crash Sunday left two people dead. Last summer, a pilot wrote to the agency to “Please do something,” after air traffic controllers at LaGuardia reportedly failed to disclose that other airplanes were nearby. Similar reports issued just months apart also described how LaGuardia air traffic controllers issued inaccurate instructions that led to near collisions, with some complaints warning the issues at LaGuardia were similar to what could have caused the January 2025 midair collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport that killed 67 people. The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday that long lines at LaGuardia Airport’s security checkpoints, due to TSA shortages, had delayed investigators from arriving at the scene of the deadly collision on Sunday when an Air Canada Express plane collided with a fire truck. The National Transportation Safety Board also said that the fire truck did not have a transponder, which was needed to trigger the warning system before the deadly crash.