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A fishing boat crew sparked a security alert when they abandoned the helm for a three-way SEX SESSION.

Two men and a woman were romping below decks when their vessel piled into runway approach lights that stretch out into New York harbour from the city's La Guardia airport.

If the love boat crew had been “terrorists with bad intentions, they could have easily succeeded,’’ said an angry Port Authority Police Dept spokesman.

“If they had hand-held rockets, they would have had plenty of time to fire at planes,’’ he added.

It's not the first time a threesome sex romp has led to a crash - a handbrake mishap left two in hospital earlier this month.

But in this case it took 30 minutes to establish there was no security risk because - in a money-saving move to operate only in daylight hours - the port authority's police vessel was tied up nearby.

The NYPD harbour unit finally declared an all-clear, helping two of the three moonlight cruisers to hospital for treatment.

Before the wreck, “a consensual three-way sex endeavour was going on,’’ a source told the New York Post. “There’s a moral here: If you’re feeling amorous aboard a boat, I suggest you drop your anchor before you drop your pants.’’

Their wild night started on Saturday night in a bar in Queens, where boat owner Craig Gallo, 51, James Benenato, 60, and Mary Ann Belson, also 60, were chatting between drinks. Neither of the two men had met Belson before.

Gallo, who lives in New Jersey and works for a financial company on Long Island, invited them aboard for a moonlight cruise. And before long, the boat was rocking. Their joyride ended abruptly at the end of Runway 22, when the boat was impaled on a lighting stanchion.

Belson is being treated for a possible broken nose and jaw, and Gallo, who was later charged with operating a boat under the influence, suffered facial injuries. Benenato was not hurt.

Officials said all three were lucky the boat was supported by the stanchion, otherwise the badly damaged craft might have sunk as they waited for help.