1flight attendant injured after Delta regional jets collide at LaGuardia Airport, airline says

Hi Geico, yea I just crashed into my friend's plane.

With what appears to be increasing reports of actual hits and near misses, it appears as if US airports are becoming increasingly unsafe. Are years of neglect and abuse over equipment and staff respectively finally coming home to roost? The incidents remain a small fraction of total flight activity, but over time that fraction should be decreasing, not increasing. At what point does one advise the traveling public that they are not as safe as they think they are? Are successive Administrations playing roulette with airport safety?

Always look both ways.

Juan Brown (@blancolirio) has a great video analyzing the incident, including the aircraft conversations with ground ATC. The NTSB will definitely come out with recommendations to ATC to issue clearer instructions. Not sure you can really blame the pilots 100% here although someone wasn't paying attention in the cockpit.

Zipper merge?

Two flight crews just lost their chance for promotion to the majors.

Human factors. We're quick to blame everything else.

Both were "Endeavor" Aircraft

Sounds like someone got a little to close! Wonder who is going to have to eat this one (so to speak)... OPS or the Crew(s)

I’m just a noob aviation fan, but I would think the plane that was going to takeoff didn’t stop soon enough and protruded into the runway? What’s the opposite of stopping short?

Oh yeah the landing plane might not have stayed on the center line.?

We're just reaping what we sow. Decades, now, of failing to properly mold young people and prepare them for the real world all while allowing employees to dictate their own lackadaisical work ethics results in a myriad of poor performance incidents. Many, many more to come...