A flight attendant was injured after two Delta Air Lines jets collided on the taxiway at LaGuardia Airport in New York.
According to the Associated Press, an aircraft carrying 32 people was preparing to takeoff for Roanoke, Virginia, when its wing hit the fuselage of an aircraft arriving from Charlotte with 61 people aboard.
A flight attendant had non-life-threatening injuries, and no passenger injuries were reported in what the airline described as a “low-speed collision.”
“Their right wing clipped our nose and the cockpit we have damage to our windscreen and ... some of our screens in here,” a pilot said, according to air traffic control audio.
Images of the damage showed the broken wing on one plane while other plane’s cockpit window was shattered, and its nose cone was deeply gouged in several places.
The Delta Connection aircraft involved in the collision are operated by Endeavor Air. Both are CRJ-900 planes, said the Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating. The planes can seat 70 to 90 passengers.
The incident is the latest close call involving aircraft in a year that has seen an airliner collid with an Army helicopter, killing 67 people.
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