airplane off runway in CLE

[ApocketA's_145]

74 pax on board as plane goes off runway... anybody know whats happened???

 

[Baronman]

CNN is reporting a Shuttle America -170 from Atlanta going off of RWY 28 (the shortest RWY at CLE), snow/visibility a factor vis <1mile but who knows...Looks like good visibility there now. Not sure how it was earlier.

 

[DiverDriver]

Well, what we will all want to know is what were the braking action reports before landing and hopefully taken after the slide off. Where was the point of first touchdown. Were the TRs deployed and when? etc... etc...

Until we know that then not much to see here.

 

[ceo_of_the_sofa]

Plane Slides Off Runway At Hopkins Airport


POSTED: 3:54 pm EST February 18, 2007
UPDATED: 4:40 pm EST February 18, 2007

CLEVELAND -- A Delta Airlines commuter plane went off a runway at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Sunday as it was landing.
Officials believe snowy weather may have caused the plane to crash near NASA Glenn at about 3 p.m. There were snow squalls in the area at the time of the accident.
There were 74 passengers on board the plane. No one was injured
The airport used buses to get the people off the aircraft and to the terminal.
Cleveland police, firefighters, EMS and airport operation teams are at the scene.
Both engines of the plane were damaged in the crash. The nose of the plane was either damaged or buried in snow, an airport representative said.
The plane also took out part of the perimeter fence at the airport and damages some antennas.
There was no immediate word on where the plane was coming from.
Airport officials said some flights scheduled to arrive in Cleveland were being diverted to Columbus.

 

[TOOL CRIB]

just to save someone else some research. Rwy 28 is 6017ft and the weather at the time of arrival was

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But it just started snowing 20 min before that with light snow according to the metars.
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[ReverseSensing]

No one was injured .

Good to read.

 

[Way2Broke]

How long before the Monday morning quarterbacking begins?

 

[MJG]

Just saw the video on the local channel. Looks like he's off the end of 28 just through the airport perimeter fence. Like someone above said RWY 28 is only 6000 ft long, 4900 ft available when landing beyond the glidslope. CLE will use 28 when the winds are more favorable for it and they are plowing one of the 24s at the time.

Sadly this is very similar to the SW MDW accident. Short runway, shorter landing with the glide and heavy, heavy snow at the time.

We've had some pretty heavy lake effect snow squalls today which is strange since the lake is frozen over. All it takes is to be landing when one of those showers is letting loose over the airport. Funny thing is usually five minutes later, the sun is out and shining. Someone landed just before this one and had no problems but no idea what conditions they had for landing vs. what the E170 had.

 

[DiverDriver]

How long before the Monday morning quarterbacking begins?

About 6 hours 41 minutes by my watch to Monday. ;-)

 

[XJohXJ]

FI's top ten list of reasons why the regional jet went off the runway:

10) FO was busy frosting his hair on final.

9) Crew was not dressed properly (left hats at home).

8) Crew was distracted by ipod video's, didn't see runway coming.

7) Crew was underpaid.

6) Republicans' fault.

5) Hilary's fault.

4) Jet Blue's fault.

3) Mesa's fault

2) Leather crew jackets.


Annnnnnd, Number 1):


SJS!!!