American Airlines passengers feared for their lives Thursday, when a bird flew into the engine of their outbound LaGuardia flight — forcing the plane to quickly make an emergency touchdown at the city’s other airport.
Flight 1722 took off from LGA just after 7:20 p.m. and was scheduled to land at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina less than two hours later — but the plane barely made it past the coast of Long Island before it was diverted and…





























