{"id":19822,"date":"2025-10-02T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=19822"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:46:53","slug":"two-delta-regional-jets-collide-on-taxiway-at-laguardia-airport-1-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/two-delta-regional-jets-collide-on-taxiway-at-laguardia-airport-1-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Delta regional jets collide on taxiway at LaGuardia Airport; 1 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two Canadair jets<\/a> operated by Endeavor Air, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, collided on a taxiway at LaGuardia Airport in New York Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The incident took place at 9:58 p.m. between two Canadair CRJ-900 regional jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One was an outbound flight and the other inbound, according to the Port Authority of New York<\/a> and New Jersey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Delta spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital that one flight attendant had suffered a minor injury and was treated by EMTs before being transported to a local hospital as a precaution. No other passengers were injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LaGuardia Airport Terminal B at Dusk (iStock)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delta confirmed the incident, describing it as a “low-speed collision” involving Endeavor Air flight 5155 from LaGuardia to Roanoke, Virginia, and Endeavor Air flight 5047 arriving from Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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 spokesperson Morgan Durrant said. “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.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At 9:58 p.m. Wednesday, two Canadair CRJ-900 regional jets operated by Endeavor Air, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, collided during taxing at LaGuardia Airport, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.  (Oren on X)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They have said that preliminary information indicates the departing aircraft\u2019s wing made contact with the fuselage of the arriving aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passengers from both planes were deplaned on the taxiway and returned to Terminal C by bus. Delta said customers were provided with food and beverages, as well as with hotel accommodations and rebookings for those whose travel was disrupted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this photo illustration, the Delta Air Lines company logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two Canadair jets operated by Endeavor Air, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, collided on a taxiway at LaGuardia Airport in New York Wednesday night. The incident took place at 9:58 p.m. between two Canadair CRJ-900 regional jets. One was an outbound flight and the other inbound, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-6-e1759394480659.png?fit=750%2C459&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19825,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822\/revisions\/19825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}