Cockpit Smashed As Delta Regional Jets Crash On LaGuardia Taxiway, Flight Attendant Injured

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.

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.

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Comments

  1. 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.)

  2. 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.

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