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How do 2 jetliners on the ground collide?

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Watch: Two Delta passenger planes collide at LaGuardia Airport
Two Delta planes collided on the taxiway at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, with the wing of one aircraft striking the cockpit window of the other. Delta Air Lines said that the "low-speed collision" happened between Endeavor Air Flight 5047, arriving from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Endeavor Flight 5155, scheduled to depart for Roanoke, Virginia. One flight attendant sustained a minor injury and was transported to the hospital.
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Perhaps Mikey can tell us if this was something that absolutely shouldn't have happened or not.
 
duh on the how, but-- wasn't there another "collide" just 10 days ago? There was.
 
Best guess, looking at the photo, the plane had it's nose beyond the stopping line. If you ever get a chance to listen the Ground Control radio traffic ... it is a wonder that it doesn't happen more often.
 
Same way two cars collide in the Trader Joe's parking lot?
 
That's an expensive game of tag.
 
Near ground collisions at busy commercial airports happen more frequently than you think.
 
Juan Brown, a 777 pilot runs an aircraft centric channel on YT, plus he's a rider, and he's local-ish (Grass Valley, I think). His Blancolirio channel covers a variety of topics, including crash analysis. He dropped one about this today.
 
Thanks for the video!
The news media showed 2 planes going in opposite directions and colliding, but their graphic was dead wrong and highly misleading.
Sounds like it was an accident waiting to happen, from his description.
 
Sounds like
flying_hun said:
Juan Brown, a 777 pilot runs an aircraft centric channel on YT, plus he's a rider, and he's local-ish (Grass Valley, I think). His Blancolirio channel covers a variety of topics, including crash analysis. He dropped one about this today.
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Great source!
 
Why did it happen? Probably one or both pilots drive Teslas and had 'em set on "auto-pilot"!
 
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Well, screw that mad dash rapid fire approach to the ATC speed then. Got that from the video above.

Looks like that was a part of it, also the “notoriously tight airport”
 
Mike95060 said:
Sounds like

Great source!
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He sure "was". He's pivoted his content to get more clicks/revenue from YT. I've lost interest after watching Juan for >3-5 years. He knows it, but its what he needs to put up the content, I get that.
 
Nah,
Well, the video above was pretty short, and, full of information . About one of the shortest videos I’ve stumbled upon the whole week
 
Have opportunity to share conversation with an air traffic controller who was part of the purge back-in-the-day. When things like this come up, he just shakes his head and says something equivalent to, "No one learned a thing."

Know lots of airport personnel. If you ever look at the taxiway, there's lines of multiple colors marking paths. You are told to stay on the lines and which one. Very often, planes come to rest in an inappropriate spot to disembark passengers because, like the John Mayer verse, they didn't stay inside the lines.

Wife worked for a major airline at SFO. Replacing winglets due to oops moments was routine. Most of it was striking ground objects, occasionally parked planes, but was told of a few planes on the move playing bumper cars like the above. The majority of these incidents don't rise to public scrutiny.

The video was good rendition of the sitch. I guess the ATC expected the outbound plane to consult his Quija board to guesstimate when/where he'd encounter the inbound plane?
 
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