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Originally Posted by Party Elephant
the La Guardia spokesperson says the report of only 1 controller in the tower is not accurate.
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When I was a controller it was generally one hour (or 90 min) on, and then one hour off. I have no clue how LaGuardia tower does things, but I would guess that there were 2-3 actual human beings in the tower, but still only one actively controlling ground/tower at the time of the incident.
NTSB guy knows these semantics, but saying "it's not accurate" is step 1 in what's going to be several months of authorities minimizing this incident and saying the system isn't broken.