A passenger jet skidded off a runway
at LaGuardia Airport and crashed into a fence as it tried to land amid a
blinding wintry mix Thursday morning, sparking a fuel leak in one of
its wings and prompting evacuations, Port Authority officials and
sources familiar with the situation tell NBC 4 New York.
At
least 125 passengers and five crew members were on Delta flight 1086,
an MD-88 headed to New York from Atlanta, Georgia, when it slid off the
runway around 11 a.m., authorities said. The impact caused a fuel leak
on the plane's left wing, a Port Authority source said; the extent of
the damage was not clear but the leak was not believed to be
significant.
No major injuries were reported, the
Port Authority said, though at least two people were seen being taken to
the terminal on stretchers and one was taken to the hospital. LaGuardia
runways were shut down immediately after the accident and the city's
Office of Emergency Management said all incoming and outgoing flights
had been suspended until further notice.
About
3 inches of snow had fallen in New York at the time of the accident,
but wind, sleet and snowflakes combined to hamper visibility and make
paved surfaces slippery. Freezing fog was observed near LaGuardia around 11 a.m., which likely
coated the already snow-topped runways with an icy glaze and may have
contributed to the crash.
A video of the crash scene below...
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