ABOVE: Passengers evacuated from Southwest flight after collision with another plane
NEW YORK – Some Christmas fliers got their wings clipped – literally.
Two jets at New York’s LaGuardia Airport got a little too close for comfort Tuesday morning, with one ripping the wingtip off the other. No passengers on either plane were injured.
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American Airlines Flight 1104 from Dallas was taxiing to its gate just before 11 a.m. as Southwest Airlines Flight 449 to Denver was departing.
The left winglet – a vertical fin at the tip of a wing designed to improve airflow and fuel efficiency – was ripped off the Southwest plane after it made contact with the American jet’s left horizontal stabilizer, part of the tail. Both planes were Boeing 737s.
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