Two Delta Air Lines planes collided Wednesday night on a taxiway at LaGuardia Airport in New York.
According to CBS News, the airline said in a statement that a “low-speed collision” occurred between Endeavor Flight 5155, which was scheduled to depart for Roanoke, Virginia, and Endeavor Air Flight 5047, arriving from Charlotte, North Carolina.
Endeavor is a subsidiary of Delta which was operating the two regional flights that crashed just before 10 p.m.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Flight 5047 was taxing to its gate when it hit Flight 5155. According to CBS News, the FAA said air traffic control instructed Flight 5155 to hold and yield to the other plane.
The collision happened at the intersection of Taxiways M and A.
Preliminary information shows that the wing of Flight 5155 made contact with the fuselage of the other plane.
“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 air traffic control audio. Photos show the broken wing on one plane and a shattered cockpit window and deeply gouged nose cone on the other, per The Associated Press.
The airline reported that a flight attendant sustained a minor injury. They were treated by EMTs at the scene and then taken to a hospital. According to The AP, there were no reports of injured passengers.
“There was no impact to airport operations,” the Port Authority said of the incident, per CBS News.
There were 32 people, 28 passengers and four crew members, on board flight 5155 and 61 people, 57 passengers and four crew members on board Flight 5047.
After the collision, passengers were escorted off the plane and on to shuttle buses. The airline provided hotel rooms to those who needed it and passengers were booked onto new flights for Thursday.
“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 said in a statement, per CBS News. “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.”
On Thursday, the FAA said it was investigating the incident and that the cause was still unclear, per The New York Times.