FLIGHT TERROR: Planes collide at LaGuardia as airport grappled with intense delays: ‘We all felt a bump’

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FROM NY POST: Two planes collided on the tarmac at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Friday — as the airport grappled with intense delays brought on by weather and staffing shortages due to the historic government shutdown, The Post has learned.

A United Airlines plane returning from Orlando, Florida, was turning into its arrival gate when it clipped the tail of another United jet on the taxiway, a spokesperson for the airline said.

The clipped plane, which was waiting to be taxied for its journey to Houston, was stationary at the time.


“We all felt a bump during taxi to the runway but didn’t know it was another plane until the captain said it was,” a passenger told The Post.

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