Turkish Airway flight w/198 on board skidded off runway at JFK:

[babylonsister]

breaking on CNN, no link yet, but I imagine weather had something to do with it.:think:

[benburch]

1. People OK? nt

[helderheid]

2. the weather is supposed to be really horrid out there.

hope everyone is okay.

[Fredda Weinberg]

8. The snow stopped hours ago

but temperatures remain below freezing, so the runway could have been slick.

[Roland99]

3. 26.9" in Central Park...highest amount ever.

[catmother]

5. my husband was in new york for his niece's wedding. he was

supposed to fly home to phoenix this morning. when i heard the weather predictions i told him he better try to get out of there saturday. (the wedding was friday). he got a 6:00 pm flight last night but it did not take off for almost 2 hours. they had to keep de-icing the plane. he thinks he got the last flight out. we lived in new york and we hate it now -- so it would have been a bitch had he gotten stuck there another few days. it was 79 here today.:)

the newly married couple were supposed to leave for italy today for their honeymoon. doubt whether they made it out.

[cal04]

4. I thought they closed down the airports here. That's strange

I live near there and haven't heard one plane today
I hope everyone's ok

[Bozita]

6. Yup, only Hartford was open as of 4 hours ago

[catmother]

7. it was closed this afternoon but they probably re-opened it.

[catmother]

11. i know where you live. i lived in queens and i would go out

that way shopping. i would take rockaway blvd (is that the name of it) where the street lamps get real small because of the low flying planes? i remember a plane crashed there -- touched down on the road and then bounced back up and crashed. it was terrible.

[cal04]

9. no one was hurt (link)

Plane Skids Off N.Y. Runway; No Injuries

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Turkish Airways flight skidded off a runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport Sunday, but none of the 198 passengers were injured, a regional transportation spokesman said.

Turkish Airways flight 1 skidded off the runway at 9:20 p.m. as it was landing following a record-breaking snowstorm, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PLANE_SKID?SITE=1010WINS&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[catmother]

10. i have the tv on. usually they run a trailer down at the bottom of

the screen. haven't seen anything about the turkish airliner.