Meanwhile At LaGuardia Airport...

[j44ke]

...this.

[werksmini]

Wow, glad to hear everyone is ok. Must have been quite the sensation when it started to head off the runway.

[rwsaunders]

SAAB must have been posting another response to a tubular thread from his iPhone when he should have been on the brakes...

[defspace]

see, this is what I'm afraid of with moto routing.

[zetroc]

Any word on if it was on discs or cantis?

[Shinomaster]

I would have **** myself if I were on that plane.

[davids]

I know it's completely insensitive and self-centered to say it, but: I'm so relieved that, for once in this God-forsaken winter, it's not Boston.

[Matthew Strongin]

Yikes. Good thing nobody was hurt.

[vertical_doug]

status quo for a third world airport
Joe Biden: LaGuardia Airport Like Some Third World country

[deadbeef]

Thanks be to berm!

Seriously though, glad everyone made it off that plane ok.

[monadnocky]

Any word on if it was on discs or cantis?

best post ever

[j44ke]

Landing in LGA always feels a bit like a water landing interrupted by solid ground. Or rather, a pier attached to solid ground. The first part of that runway is actually a pier out over the water, and it freezes immediately when it snows or rains or looks like it will snow or rain during the winter. This plane may have come in, put the wheels down and got hit by a crosswind and started sliding left on the icy surface of the pier tarmac. This is the third accident of its type. The first one went into the water and 19 people died. That earthen barrier isn't actually there to prevent planes from going into the water. It runs parallel to the runway (gives you an idea how sharp a left the plane made midway down the runway.) The barrier keeps the water out of LGA during high tides. Or at least in theory that's what it is supposed to do. The problem is that the barrier does not surround the entire runway area, so the water just comes in the far end of the tarmac, like it did in Hurricane Sandy.



That's the runway in the photo above. The jet skidded to the left onto the barrier.

[nrs5000]

status quo for a third world airport
Joe Biden: LaGuardia Airport Like Some Third World country

Funny you should mention that.

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