WASHINGTON — Two Delta Air Lines regional jets collided on the taxiway at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Wednesday night, injuring a flight attendant and damaging both aircraft in what the airline described as a “low-speed collision.”

An aircraft carrying 32 people was preparing for takeoff to Roanoke, Virginia, when its wing struck the fuselage of a plane arriving from Charlotte, North Carolina, with 61 people on board, according to a statement from Delta.

A flight attendant sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to a hospital, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said. There were no reports of passenger injuries, Delta added.

“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

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