Investigators with the National Transportation Security Board’s team probing the deadly Sunday night crash at LaGuardia Airport are still working to reach the scene as many struggle to inch through ever-growing security lines at airports.
Jennifer Homendy, the chairwoman of NTSB, told reporters Monday evening that members of their investigation team are still en route, so they weren’t able to mark “a full day of investigation” on site yet.
Dozens of staffers from across the NTSB, including 25 specialists, are being brought to the Queens airport to investigate the harrowing crash, which left two pilots dead and more than 40 injured.
One of their air traffic control specialists was stuck waiting in a security line at a Houston airport for a whopping three hours, and was only fast-tracked through after NTSB called to “beg to see if we could get her through so we can get her here,” Homendy said.
Scores of TSA workers have called out after going more than a month without a full paycheck amid the partial government shutdown.
President Trump dispatched Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to supplement the missing TSA officers, but wait times at airports across the country are still climbing.
