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Delta pilots contact wrong tower while landing at LaGuardia

Name: Delta pilots contact wrong tower while landing at LaGuardia
Uploaded: 2026-03-31T19:09:00-0400
Duration: 2 min 22 s
Description: A Delta flight was on its final approach to land at LaGuardia Airport, but the pilots were talking to controllers in the JFK tower about 10 miles away on the wrong radio frequency. Kris Van Cleave reports.

A Delta flight was on its final approach to land at LaGuardia Airport, but the pilots were talking to controllers in the JFK tower about 10 miles away on the wrong radio frequency. Kris Van Cleave reports.