Pilot error and unstable approach caused Southwest crash: NTSB

737 Southwest Airlines La Guardia

​The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has pinned the cause of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 crash at New York’s LaGuardia airport in 2013 on an unstable approach and the captain’s decision to take command of the aircraft at low altitude.

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