Cockpit recorders of Delta jets that collided on LaGuardia taxiway are being analyzed

A Delta Air Lines flight takes off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in January 2023. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

This story was updated on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, at 7:23 p.m.

Two Delta Air Lines regional jets collided on the taxiway at LaGuardia Airport in New York, injuring a flight attendant, damaging a cockpit and tearing off part of a wing in what the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday happened at the intersection of two taxiways.

The NTSB said it sent a team of 10 investigators to the airport, and flight recorders have already been recovered from both airplanes and sent to its headquarters for analysis. It wasn’t immediately clear who was at fault, but air traffic control had instructed the Virginia-bound plane “to hold short and yield to the other aircraft” before the collision, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.