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Plane Skids Off Runway at LaGuardia Airport
By Pei-Sze Cheng
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local...295187641.html
Updated 10 minutes ago
An aircraft skidded on the runway at LaGuardia Airport and crashed into a fence as it tried to land amid a blinding wintry mix Thursday morning, Port Authority officials and sources familiar with the situation tell NBC 4 New York.
It wasn't clear how many people were on the Delta plane, an MD-88 headed to New York from Atlanta, Georgia, when it slid off the runway around 11 a.m. MD-88 planes seat 149 passengers.
No serious injuries have been reported, according to a Federal Avitation Administration official.
Photos posted to Twitter and other social media showed the tail of the plane dipping into the snow; the nose was pointed upward and appeared to be damaged.
Other photos showed the front of the plane smashed through the fence as passengers climbed out onto a wing and trudged through snow to safety.
Delta couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
Less than 3 inches of snow had fallen in New York at the time of the accident, but whipping winds, sleet and snowflakes combined to hamper visibiliy and make paved surfaces slippery.
Published 31 minutes ago
By Pei-Sze Cheng
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local...295187641.html
Updated 10 minutes ago
An aircraft skidded on the runway at LaGuardia Airport and crashed into a fence as it tried to land amid a blinding wintry mix Thursday morning, Port Authority officials and sources familiar with the situation tell NBC 4 New York.
It wasn't clear how many people were on the Delta plane, an MD-88 headed to New York from Atlanta, Georgia, when it slid off the runway around 11 a.m. MD-88 planes seat 149 passengers.
No serious injuries have been reported, according to a Federal Avitation Administration official.
Photos posted to Twitter and other social media showed the tail of the plane dipping into the snow; the nose was pointed upward and appeared to be damaged.
Other photos showed the front of the plane smashed through the fence as passengers climbed out onto a wing and trudged through snow to safety.
Delta couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
Less than 3 inches of snow had fallen in New York at the time of the accident, but whipping winds, sleet and snowflakes combined to hamper visibiliy and make paved surfaces slippery.
Published 31 minutes ago
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