Posted on 10/02/2025 5:25:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
New York — A collision occurred Wednesday night between two Delta Air Lines planes on a taxiway at LaGuardia Airport in New York.
In a statement, Delta Air Lines said that a "low-speed collision" occurred between Endeavor Air Flight 5047, arriving from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Endeavor Flight 5155, which was scheduled to depart for Roanoke, Virginia.
Endeavor is a Delta subsidiary. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in its own statement that the crash occurred just before 10 p.m. Eastern Time.
Delta plane on taxiway at LaGuardia Airport There was an apparent collision between two planes on a taxiway at LaGuardia Airport on Oct. 1, 2025. CBS News New York The Federal Aviation Administration later said Flight 5047 was taxing to its gate when it struck Flight 5155. The FAA said air traffic control instructed Flight 5155 to hold and yield to the other plane.
It happened at the intersection of Taxiways M and A, the FAA said.
According to Delta, preliminary information indicates that the wing of Flight 5155 made contact with the fuselage of Flight 5047.
The airline said that a flight attendant sustained a minor injury and was treated by EMTs at the scene. The injured person was taken to a hospital, the Port Authority said.
"There was no impact to airport operations," the Port Authority said of the incident.
Endeavor Flight 5155 was carrying 32 people, 28 passengers and four crewmembers, Delta said. Endeavor Flight 5047 was carrying 61 people, 57 passengers and 4 crewmembers.
A CBS News producer who was aboard Flight 5047 captured cell phone video of the damage to the wing of the other plane.
In the video, a pilot aboard Flight 5047 can be heard over the intercom telling passengers that "it seems as though there's an aircraft that collided with us."
"It was a pretty violent collision. At the time, we didn't really know like kind of what we hit." CBS News producer Joey Annunziato said. "But it almost, what it sounded like was like a sardine can kind of opening. Like it was like something was being sheared off and, lo and behold, we looked at the right side of the plane, and the wing looked like it was almost like off the plane."
Passengers were escorted off the planes and onto waiting shuttle buses. The airline said that passengers who needed them would be provided hotel rooms and booked onto new flights Thursday.
"Delta teams at our New York-LaGuardia hub are working to ensure our customers are taken care of after two Delta Connection aircraft operated by Endeavor Air were involved in a low-speed collision during taxi," Delta said in a statement. "Delta will work with all relevant authorities to review what occurred as safety of our customers and people comes before all else. We apologize to our customers for the experience."
Elijah Westbrook contributed to this report.
Aviation Ping!.....................
Aviation Ping!.....................
I think I can squeeze by there...
Waiting for the today’s democrat party liner national press corpse to blame this ground-ground taxiing collision to be caused “by Trump’s government shutdown” of the TSA and FAA because “the Republicans want to defund Medicare and end Social Security” because they “want tax cuts for the rich”.
Coming in 5, 4, 3, 2 .....
I wonder if the pilot responsible ever destroyed a McDonald’s because they forgot to add BBQ dipping sauce with her chicken nuggets.
Well, the wing fell off.
Joey...”like”, Annunziato, dude!
And it was like, wow dude, like crazy.
Looks like the plane on the runway should have had right of way, and the plane on the crossing taxiway tried to hold up and yield but overshot.
There is no reverse gear on a jet
Buttplug and Evil Pres Jill pushed DEI and
Delta pushed these DEI pilots .
Delta never removed these Simpletons .
Here we are .
I am not flying United Delta or American with there DEI pilots .
I bet equity-hiring and DEI figure into this either at ground control or pilot training.
LaGuardia is one of the airports I avoid if at all possible.
The last time I flew through it we almost missed out connection. Even though we came in on time and were departing on the scheduled flight of the same airline.
They were rebuilding the terminals at the time. Even though one terminal was within walking/sight distance of the terminal we arrived on we had to take a NYC bus to get to the departure terminal. The bus took us out of the airport into Queens and then back in. Which meant we had to go through security again. No one spoke English it seemed. There were no clear signage on what to do.
We made it to our gate and the door was closed. At first they would not let us on. Eventually they did. We were the last people to get on the plane. Then we taxied out and sat waiting for our turn to take off. Which was at least another half hour.
After that stressful ordeal I decided to never again fly through LaGuardia. It was like flying through an airport in a third world country. Except, there were no chickens running around the terminal.
DEI at its finest.
Delta Employs Idiots..................
FWIW, I have no problem with QUALIFIED female pilots, but not the DEI qualification.
Ya think? Pretty sure the FAA is going to be interested in this as well.
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