port authority whether the federal aviation administration and whether the pilots made the right decisions on that day. reporter: the incident has renewed concerns about la guardia, where traffic is high and runways short. in 1996 another jet hit pilings at the end of the same runway and crashed. ntsb investigators called it pilot error. but listen to rick take who has close to 40 years of airline experience. la guardia s one of the runways, when you re coming in you have to have your a-game with you. and you have to be right on. and everything you re doing because there s not a lot of room for error. reporter: recent runway accidents have the whole industry on-edge. last year a private jet crashed trying to take off outside boston killing seven. how many more do we have down? reporter: in 2013 an asiana airlines jet hit a seawall in san francisco, killing 3 and injuring 181. and in 2006 a plane in kentucky