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Any aviation insurance actuary could give us the numbers on how often this will occur. It can and will happen to every airline. Hell, Air Force One put one in the tulips several years ago.
All the best to the SWA crew as they deal with the situation.
SWA
http://morichesdaily.com/2012/12/southwest-737-veers-taxiway-macarthur-airport/
Air Force One
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-01-28/news/9801290008_1_plane-runway-andrews-air-force-base
Cannot believe........................................the Genitals hasn't chimed in yet.
Just saw tail end of report. I believe it was Newark. I think its funny how they say they exited the runway. The didn't run off the runway.
You Southwest guys need to SLOW down
And once again, without actually knowing diddly-dick, a moron leads a piece and titles a thread about running off a "runway," to make it sound more ominous, like it's closer to a "plane crash," and not to mention attention-getting.
It was ISP, not EWR, and the plane apparently got off a taxiway in the winter weather.
But hey, MSMB, look at the bright side: you may not know crap about actual airline operations (like the fact there's a pretty significant difference between a runway and a taxiway), but you've shown yourself well-qualified to be an "airline expert" on the evening news. Good luck with that.
Bubba
Easy there bubba. If you take a deep breath and go back and read my original post, I said "I believe" and that I only saw the tail end of the report. The reporter did say runway. I just got the EWR part wrong. The reporter got the location at the airport wrong. I guess if you end up in the grass, you would assume it was the runway.
I don't think "exiting the runway" is closer to describing a plane crash. Now if I had said that southwest flew off the runway at a high rate of speed, that would have been ominous! At the end of the day, you really don't need to get that defensive. It could happen to anybody.
Probably a colonel
You don't even know if speed was a factor. I saw a MD80 in SLC come off of 34R years ago. The guy went between two runway lights into 15 inches of snow. He did a nice slow 90 degree turn then planted it. The runway was closed for almost a day.You guys need to slow down