JetBlue Plane Slides off Runway at Syracuse Airport

[Pilot124]

http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=6eb9dba3-82ed-4cc2-9f80-5955b4d78696


Hancock Airport (WSYR-TV) - The weather caused some problems for JetBlue passengers flying into Syracuse’s Hancock Airport from Orlando late Sunday night. Ice caused the JetBlue plane to slide off the runway, but the trouble didn’t end there.
The tow truck that was brought into to put the plane back on the pavement at Hancock also got stuck.
It took nearly two hours to get the plane to the gate. The flight arrived in Syracuse at 10 p.m. Sunday. Passengers weren’t able to exit the aircraft until shortly after 12 a.m. Monday.
Several passengers told NewsChannel 9, other than the boredom of sitting on a plane for two additional hours, the pilots and crew handled the situation well.
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[Poahi]

Here's a thought: Maybe these airplanes are slip slidding all over the place because the runways and taxiways are slippery.... Maybe these airport managers can get off their %#%^es and do their jobs, or if they can't, shut the airports down. I'm tired of the towers misrepresenting the conditions of the fields. Someone has to stand up against this horse*&^%!

 

[BCpilot81]

Here's a thought: Maybe these airplanes are slip slidding all over the place because the runways and taxiways are slippery.... Maybe these airport managers can get off their %#%^es and do their jobs, or if they can't, shut the airports down. I'm tired of the towers misrepresenting the conditions of the fields. Someone has to stand up against this horse*&^%!

Could not agree with you more.....sooner or later it all comes down to Pilot error for the flying public to see

 

[BOHICAgain]

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

OOPS.

 

[GINCHBLASTER]

I lol'd at that too.

 

[Batman Fan]

The plane did not run off the runway or taxiway. The story was retracted.

 

[~~~^~~~]

Smart Captain to set the parking brake and wait for a tow.

 

[Dave's kid]

http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=6eb9dba3-82ed-4cc2-9f80-5955b4d78696

Hancock Airport (WSYR-TV) - We have a correction on a story we first reported Monday morning about complications involving a JetBlue flight that landed at Hancock Airport Sunday night.

Nearly two hours had passed between the time flight 660 from Orlando landed to the time it finally reached the gate. Some passengers told us the plane skidded off the icy runway, but JetBlue says that's not true.

A spokesperson says “the aircraft was under control at all times and did not leave the taxiway or the runway at any time.”

A statement from the airline says the captain was having traction problems and requested a tug tow the plane to the gate. JetBlue says the delay was caused by continued freezing rain which reduced traction for the tug as well.

Eventually the plane made it to the gate, and JetBlue says the plane was under control at all times.

The airline had not made any previous statements concerning the incident.

 

[FDJ2]

Good job!

 

[Marko Ramius]

Call Patroni

. Maybe these airport managers can get off their %#%^es and do their jobs, or if they can't, shut the airports down.

CLEAR RUNWAY TWO-NINER!!!

 

[Propsync]

I'm tired of the towers misrepresenting the conditions of the fields.

How dare they? Maybe next time, they'll close the field , get out of the tower cab, and check it out for themselves. Those same people (so I have heard) can change WX readings so you can at least shoot an approach. I guess they shouldn't do that, either, although I'm sure more than a few here have been helped in such a way.

BTW- Did the crew come from Mesa? Just Kidding. Stay safe all.

 

[GogglesPisano]

CLEAR RUNWAY TWO-NINER!!!

"When I come in I want something mighty long and plenty wide!"

 

[Dr King]

This is a lie. I was at SYR when it happened. The airplanes nose wheel was off the runway. The plane sat out there for a while with out an APU working. I dont know why they are denying it

 

[Mesabi Miner]

CLEAR RUNWAY TWO-NINER!!!

"I want every light you got poured onto that field."

 

[Hovernut]

"Petroni, get outta there!"

 

[ackattacker]

They're having a conference now to decide what to do. But I need somebody who knows. A genius. Like Patroni.

 

[Tomct]

"...looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue...":cartman:

 

[Flyin2low]

The tower doesn't measure runway/taxiway conditions. They just pass along the reports from the airport operator.

 

[SKYWRJGUY]

Man are they lucky--nearly off the runway with no union would have been disastrous for the pilots, their group and the entire industry! Lowering the bar for the profession like that--I can't believe all the ex union guys and gals there haven't recalled all the benefits they are missing out on and voted in the union when they were a fraction of the size...

Surely I couldn't pass up this chance to dig I had a nosewheel steering go out in FSD two nights ago--surprised the local news didn't consider that a catastrophic cacophony of critical control components (as always, abating all alliteration [damn, there I go again]). Believe some of what you read and less of what you hear; even the 'expert' consultants on TV often make me laugh--salesman rather than critical thinkers and experts. Perhaps I could augment my income that way...

 

[Turtlesfly]

all of your rumors are belong to us.

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