Posted on 10/27/2016 7:49:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Vice presidential candidate Mike Pence's campaign plane slid off the runway after landing at LaGuardia Airport Thursday evening, tearing up two tracks of concrete before coming to rest on a patch of grass.
The governor was checked to make sure he was OK, but no injuries were reported, according to an NBC campaign embed on the scene. Port Authority emergency responders were on the scene within seconds, and LaGuardia Airport was closed for over an hour while authorities investigated.
The Boeing 737 plane, which was coming from Fort Dodge, Iowa -- about a three-hour flight from New York -- overshot a runway and made a rough impact when it landed shortly after 7:30 p.m., according to officials. The pilot slammed on the brakes and travelers could smell burning rubber.
"We can see mud on the front windows," a calm Pence said in the press cabin about a minute after the plane came to rest. He said he felt fine.
NBC campaign embed Vaughn Hillyard said on MSNBC later that the Pence plane has often had hard landings, "but in this one we hit hard, bounced for a couple seconds, then took a hard swerve to the right.
"We didn't realize fully what was happening up until the point that the campaign plane came to a complete stop, and you can see the road is 100 yards away from where the plane was -- we're off the tarmac," he continued."
"Because we were at a complete standstill and we're with the vice presidential canddiate -- we felt we're all right. And everyone was fine," said Hillyard. "The governor came quickly to see if everyone was OK. Everyone was fine."
Passengers, including Pence, exited through the back of the plane. Pence was seen shaking hands with firefighters and emergency responders on the ground before getting into a car and leaving the tarmac.
None of the 37 passengers and 11 crews on board the charter plane was hurt, according to Port Authority officials. Arrestor beds -- crushable concrete material that are installed at the end of runways and designed to slow down an aircraft overrun with no human injury and minimal damage -- "did its job" and stopped the plane, Port Authority officials said at a news briefing.
Campaign spokesman Marc Loetter told reporters that Pence had missed his fundraiser in New York City and was headed to his hotel for the night.
Pence tweeted shortly afterward, "So thankful everyone on our plane is safe. Grateful for our first responders & the concern & prayers of so many. Back on the trail tomorrow!"
Pence was scheduled to appear on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Friday morning.
In Geneva, Ohio, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump told his supporters that Pence had come "pretty close to grave, grave danger." But, he added: "I just spoke to Mike Pence and he's fine. Everybody's fine."
After closing the airport for about an hour after the incident, the Port Authority reopened one of the two runways at the airport. The other runway will remain closed indefinitely pending clearing of the aircraft. The FAA and the NTSB are investigating.
In March 2015, a passenger jet carrying 127 passengers skidded off a runway at LaGuardia Airport and crashed into a fence as it tried to land amid a blinding wintry mix. Pilot error was blamed in that skid, with federal investigators finding the pilot used too much reverse thrust and lost control of the plane's direction.
Earlier this week, a study by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics found that LaGuardia was the worst performing airport in the country. It is currently undergoing a multi-billion dollar renovation.
Nice try, Bitch! ;)
My heart stopped when I first saw the story....plane and Pence was all I saw at the time. Thank you Lord for saving Gov. Pence and all those passengers and crew.
Attempted Arkancide!
Maybe just a warning. “You had better undermine Trump or something bad will happen.”
Shurrrr Hellary........shurrrrr.......:(
Pence grabbed the steering wheel and saved everyone on that plane, like he did on Johnny Quest.
Tim Kaine probably put banana peels on the runway. :)
No Arkancide. More likely a pilot with not enough hours. The embedded reporter said they had been experiencing repeated hard landings. That’s the pilot.
“NBC campaign embed Vaughn Hillyard said on MSNBC later that the Pence plane has often had hard landings, “
Often???
Hilly cares about the Secret Service agents? That’s odd considering she treats them worse than dog crap.
Trump campaign going to great lengths to illustrate infrastructure woes at the hands of failed leftwing governance, with a little help from Putin no doubt, says clinton camp. (sarcasm alert)
Thank God all are well
It is most amazing to me how silly folks are when they make stupid comments about aircraft landings....when they know absolutely nothing about landing in bad weather on short runways. Fact is: we need to wait for the DOT/FAA investigation to determine the actual cause of the accident. It could be a bad approach, a slick runway, poor visibility, pilot error, a mechanical problem, etc. Laguardia airport, sadly, has the worst short runways in the country and, has been that way for many. many years. Snide & brash comments by uninformed folks carry no weight...nor, should they!!! Thank God...all are safe!!!
Yes, I cringe, like you, when the hoi polloi here comment on guns, aircraft, and boats without getting with a stone's throw of a fact. However, you don't have to know the technicalities of a trade when it is pretty evident what happened, without waiting for the official stamp of blame.
Tens of thousands of that type of plane, one if not the most popular passenger plane in the world, a Boeing 737, lands on that runway without incident in a year.
The pilot has a record of bouncing his landings, this is caused by poor speed control on approach but for our purposed we can ignore that.
Pilot of this particular plane lands too fast and too far down the runway to stop, he should have gone around but ignore this too. The fact is he ran off the end of the runway. Yeah, there is a LOT of things the MAY have happened, like hydro-planing, brakes locked, he forgot to lower his flaps, nevermind, he ran of the end of the runway. Note the plane is leased, so the pilot is undoubtedly building hours to get a cushy airline job, a trainee in fact. He should have asked himself why he was bouncing landings, a two hour trainee pilot could have told him lack of speed control was cause. So yeah, in this case pilot error.
It all depends on what his idea of a "hard landing" is. My sister, who is scared to death of flying, will tell you that every time she has flown it ended with a "hard landing"......LOL!
Well I must not be that smart as I failed in writing a simple paragraph in my native language that would convey that a lot of people give their opinion about subjects that they have not studied. Americans are famous for that, if fact we have an expression "Opinions are like Azzh..es, everybody has one." Using "hoi polloi" was an attempt at gentle humour, as I am a life-long member of that group. Regret not getting that across.
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