A Delta plane from Atlanta skidded off a runway at LaGuardia Airport while landing during a snowstorm Thursday and crashed through a chain-link fence, its nose coming to rest perilously close to the icy waters of a bay.

The nose was leaning on a berm that separates the runway from Flushing Bay. Passengers saddled with bags and bundled up in heavy coats and scarves were helped down from the wing and onto the snowy pavement, just feet from the water. Everyone was silent as the plane slid, but some children started crying after it came to a stop, passengers said.

"If we wouldn't have hit the snowbank, we'd be in the water right now," said Charles Runels, a passenger from Atlanta.

"We thought that we were in the water, everybody thought it was in the water and then they opened the back door and all the snow and things fell out and then the firemen came around helping everybody," another passenger told CBS New York.

Flight 1086, carrying 127 passengers and five crew members, veered off the runway at around 11:10 a.m., authorities said. Six people had non-life-threatening injuries, and at least two were taken to the hospital, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/plane-skids-off-runway-at-new-yorks-laguardia-airport/

Was it the one carrying GMB?

Nobody died? Thank God!!
Anytime I read about planes landing akwardly,or crashing these days, that's always my first thought, to be honest.

agoadiv:
Was it the one carrying GMB?

GMB go London naa and he is coming back with BA, he will surely have a safe trip back to Nigeria.

I know many people will be thinking of buhari right now o.

One of my worst flights was to this airport, same route with Delta. The river/body of water by that runway I'm told affects a lot landing into that airport. May God deliver us all. Thank God that no lives were lost too.

dabigwalls:
One of my worst flights was to this airport, same route with Delta. The river/body of water by that runway I'm told affects a lot landing into that airport. May God deliver us all. Thank God that no lives were lost too.

The run way was very slipery as a result of lots of snow flakes and Ice on the run thus the plane became uncontrolable and skid away Immediately It had Its first Impact on the runway while landing.
Yestedays snow fall which affected almost all the states In US was so Intense and some states had 20-25inches of snow flakes which also lead to the counselation of over 6000 flight schedules in the US.
Glad the plane didn't glide into the ocean, that would have been another disaster exactly 1 yr ago when the Malaysian flight 370 got missing till date.