Jaime Primak

Plane skids off New York runway as winter storm hits US

An airliner skidded off a runway at New York's La Guardia airport on March 6 and slid to a halt just yards from frigid waters, as a snow storm battered the US coast from Texas to Boston.
      
Heavy snow was falling as Delta flight 1086 from Atlanta careered off the runway, plowed up an embankment and demolished a fence after its late-morning landing in hazardous conditions.