NEW YORK (AP) — Two Delta Air Strains regional jets collided on the taxiway at LaGuardia Airport in New York, injuring a flight attendant in what the airline described as a “low-speed collision.”
An plane carrying 32 individuals was getting ready for takeoff Wednesday night time to Roanoke, Virginia, when its wing hit the fuselage of an plane arriving from Charlotte, North Carolina, with 61 individuals aboard, in response to a press release from Delta.
A flight attendant had non-life threatening accidents and was taken to a hospital, in accordance a press release from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. There have been no experiences of passengers injured, the airline mentioned.
“Their right wing clipped our nose and the cockpit we have damage to our windscreen and … some of our screens in here,” a pilot mentioned, in response to air visitors management audio.
The aircraft that had landed “stopped, jerked, and jumped to the right,” passenger William Lusk advised ABC. ”Everybody went lifeless silent. And as everybody went lifeless silent, the pilot calmly got here on and mentioned, ‘Hey, we’ve been in a crash, everybody stay calm.’”
Different airport operations weren’t anticipated to be affected, in response to Delta.
“Delta will work with all relevant authorities to review what occurred as safety of our customers and people comes before all else,” the assertion from Delta mentioned. “We apologize to our customers for the experience.”
The Delta Connection plane concerned within the collision are operated by Endeavor Air. Each are CRJ-900 planes, mentioned the Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating. The planes can seat 70 to 90 passengers.
Shut calls like this will add to worries about aviation security within the wake of the deadliest aircraft crash in the US in a long time, when an airliner collided with an Military helicopter, and different current crashes and close to misses.
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