{"id":174479,"date":"2025-10-02T05:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174479\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T05:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:26:10","slug":"two-delta-planes-collide-at-laguardia-airport-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174479\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Delta planes collide at LaGuardia Airport in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Delta Airlines passenger planes have collided at LaGuardia Airport in New York City<\/a>\u00a0in a horror accident that ripped the wing off one jet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The CRJ-900 regional jets, operated by Delta subsidiary Endeavor Air, were taxiing at low speed when they clipped each other about 9:56 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Miraculously, only one passenger was injured in the frightening collision despite footage showing one plane\u2019s wing had broken off.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The passengers were forced to deplane the aircrafts, capable of carrying up to 90 people, and wait to be transferred to new flights.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In video taken on board, a rattled passenger said his plane was ‘absolutely smashed’ by the other jet shortly after landing in New York on a flight from Charlotte.<\/p>\n

‘We were taxiing to our runway and we got absolutely smashed by another Delta flight… I don’t know if we hit them or they hit us but it was super jarring,’ the CBS News producer said.<\/p>\n

‘Everyone shot forward in their seats, it was a little chaotic, we were shocked at what happened.’<\/p>\n

A LaGuardia Airport spokesperson told Daily Mail one person was injured during the incident.<\/p>\n

\"Both <\/p>\n

Both of the planes were taxiing at the time of the crash, which occurred on Wednesday night<\/p>\n

\"Passengers <\/p>\n

Passengers and crew were seen on the runway after the damaged planes came to a stop<\/p>\n

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‘A single person onboard one of the aircraft suffered non-life threatening injuries and was transported to an area hospital as a precautionary measure,’ the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Pictures taken in the aftermath of the crash show the nose of at least one of the planes suffered significant damage.<\/p>\n

Crew members and passengers were seen on the tarmac, along with police, after the incident occurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Passengers were deplaned on the taxiway and transferred via buses back to Terminal C,’ the airport spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Passengers on the departing planes will be rebooked to another flight.’<\/p>\n

The minor crash had no further impact to airport operations.<\/p>\n

Insiders at the Federal Aviation Administration have been\u00a0sounding the alarm <\/a>for months over the potential ramifications of job cuts within the department.<\/p>\n

There have been mounting concerns about the risk of accidents at airports across the nation as a result.<\/p>\n

\"Two <\/p>\n

Two Delta Airlines planes have collided on the runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York<\/p>\n

‘Air traffic controllers cannot do their work without us,’ an employee impacted by the cuts told Politico back in February.<\/p>\n

‘To put it frankly, without our team… pilots would quite literally be flying blind,’ they added. The employee was cited as an anonymous source so they could speak freely about the terminations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier this year,\u00a0a collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport killed 67 people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition to the fatal crash in Washington DC on January 29, a small plane carrying 10 people crashed in Alaska on February 6, and two private jets collided at the Scottsdale Airport on February 10, killing one individual and injuring four.<\/p>\n

An FAA department tasked with mapping deadly aviation obstacles such as skyscrapers and power lines was also slashed to a handful of staff under drastic DOGE cuts, Daily Mail revealed this year.<\/p>\n

Insiders fear there are now so few cartographers logging potential hazards that planes could slam into buildings or towers as they navigate giant cityscapes like New York or Chicago.<\/p>\n

\"Earlier <\/p>\n

Earlier this year, a collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport killed 67 people\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

A team of 20 or so aeronautical information specialists were previously responsible for maintaining a nationwide database listing the height and location of any man-made structure that could impact safety.<\/p>\n

But under President Donald Trump’s sweeping purge of federal workers, the Obstacle Data Team has dwindled to a mere eight members, according to a whistleblower within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).<\/p>\n

Those who remain warn that resources are stretched so thin that errors could creep into the material they provide for pilots, airlines and air traffic controllers and cause a crash.<\/p>\n

‘A building could be mapped in the wrong place or the wrong height,’ the insider said. ‘It’s not far-fetched. We’re talking about the destruction of lives and airplanes.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Delta Airlines passenger planes have collided at LaGuardia Airport in New York City\u00a0in a horror accident that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,97,59,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-174479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}