Delta Jets Collide at LaGuardia Airport

Two Delta Air Lines regional jets hit each other at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. A flight attendant was hurt, a cockpit was damaged, and part of a wing broke off, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

the NTSB sent 10 investigators to the airport after the crash on Wednesday night. Thay have already taken the flight recorders from both planes to their headquarters to study what happened. It’s not yet clear who caused the collision, but air traffic control told the plane going to virginia to wait and let the other plane go first, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said.

A plane with 32 people on board was getting ready to fly to Roanoke, Virginia, when its wing hit the side of a plane that had just arrived from Charlotte, North Carolina, with 61 people. This is according to a statement from Delta.

Delta called it a “low-speed collision.” However, the airline wouldn’t say how fast the planes were going, stating that this facts is part of the ongoing inquiry. A video from a passenger showed one plane moving quickly when they hit.

A flight attendant was taken to a hospital, according to the Port Authority of New York and new Jersey. The pilot said the flight attendant told him she hurt her knee when the planes collided, according to audio posted on www.LiveATC.net. no passengers were reported as injured.

“Their right wing clipped our nose and the cockpit. We have damage to our windscreen and … some of our screens in here,” a pilot said, according to the air traffic control audio.

Pictures of the damage showed a broken wing on one plane and a shattered cockpit window and a badly damaged nose on the other.

The plane that had landed “stopped, jerked, and jumped to