Two Delta Connection Bombardier CRJ-900s operated by Endeavor Air collided on a taxiway at New York LaGuardia just before 10 p.m. on Wednesday night, damaging the nose and cockpit of one aircraft and injuring a flight attendant.
- Flight 5155 bound for Roanoke, Virginia, was taxiing for departure.
- Flight 5047 had just arrived from Charlotte, North Carolina.
My @Delta plane just crashed into another plane on the LaGuardia tarmac pic.twitter.com/jxstbpT2Fr
— Oren (@oren_juice) October 2, 2025
Another angle from the plane @Delta crash at LaGuardia pic.twitter.com/gXLFZYn264
— Oren (@oren_juice) October 2, 2025
JUST IN: Two Delta planes collided while taxiing at LaGuardia Airport in New York; wing of one of the planes detachedpic.twitter.com/ljcVJgjwtv
— BNO News (@BNONews) October 2, 2025
As the departing jet moved along the taxiway, its nose struck the fuselage and cockpit windscreen area of the arriving aircraft. A flight attendant injured their knee. No passengers on either aircraft were hurt.
Several passengers said they felt a jolt from the impact, and some described being thrown forward in their seats, but everyone was able to deplane as emergency crews responded.
According to Delta Air Lines,
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 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.
My @CBSNews colleague Joey Annunziato is on DL5047. He describes what happened as it was taxing to the gate and was clipped by another delta regional jet. pic.twitter.com/uBzgzoILzi
— Kris Van Cleave (@krisvancleave) October 2, 2025
Ah, that NYC traffic…
Obviously, not ‘great,’ but, the reporting on this is a bit hyperbolic… Certainly a ‘whoopsie’ here. That’ll be two smaller regional aircraft down for a while, if not, out for good, but, hey, isn’t it time to ditch the CRJs anyway? Get some new ERJ E2s and a220s instead…
@Tim Dunn, we know, this can happen to any airline, and technically, it was two Delta subsidiaries, like Endeavor, so, maybe, if they spin this right, DL can say it wasn’t Delta (even though it was.)
This is what happens when a nation, for decades, spends more on. “nation building”, NASA, and other pork-barrel projects in the name of American exceptionalism, then elects a foaming at the mouth regime focused on authoritarianism, because it looks good to them, and puts a reality TV star in charge of Transportation. The country is crumbling and disintegrating. Buena Suerte.
@LadyOlives: Tell me what you’ve been smoking, because I want some. Pretty cool to be so detached from reality.
@LadyOlives — I’m no fan of #47 or he and his enablers’ policies, including their budget that would strip healthcare away from millions of Americans, but, this relatively minor incident at LGA was a mere accident, not His fault. Then again, would the ‘other side’ be as kind or logical? No. That’d blame an Autopen. *sigh*
Even when you’re on the ground, keep climbing.
Why do I think we’ve had more airport ground incidents since January than the years before? Perhaps I expected improvements that have ( yet again ) failed to materialize.
1990
should not be hard to figure out who was at fault -ATC or pilots.
Even if ATC gave bad instructions, it is hard to understand how the crew of the aircraft that nosed into the wing of the other didn’t see the accident coming.
LGA is a mess in daylight; night is even more so
@Maryland — Yeah, when that tragic collision occurred in January, that side did immediately jump to partisan conclusions, which was really sad, and, like this incident, not the real cause. Mistakes happen. Hope we can learn from them.
1990
should not be hard to figure out who was at fault -ATC or pilots.
Even if ATC gave bad instructions, it is hard to understand how the crew of the aircraft that nosed into the wing of the other didn’t see the accident coming.
LGA is a mess in daylight; night is even more so at night