2 recent plane skids. Southwest airlines in Omaha on Friday night, and a United airline on Saturday.
Plane carrying 129 skids off Chicago runway as huge storm hits midwest
Sat 19 Jan 2019 18.33 EST
A plane carrying 129 people skidded from a slick Chicago runway and a plow driver was killed when his truck rolled over outside Kansas City on Saturday, following a winter storm that covered many parts of the US midwest in snow and ice.
No injuries were reported on the United Airlines flight at O’Hare International Airport as it arrived from Phoenix, Chicago fire officials said. The massive storm which dumped 10in of snow on some areas prompted the cancellation of nearly 1,000 flights at Chicago airports. The average delay at O’Hare was nearly an hour.
Kansas Department of Transportation snowplow Stephen Windler, 25, died at about 6am on Highway 69, according to the Wichita Eagle. A police crash report said his truck “traveled to the right, traversing the shoulder and drove into the grass” before it rolled over. Windler was thrown from the vehicle which landed on top of him.
The storm moved towards the north-east and New England. Some northern parts of New England could see up to 18in of snow.
A 15-vehicle crash blocked a section of Interstate 55 in south-eastern Missouri and drivers were urged to find an alternative route. In Detroit, many motorists were moving well below posted speed limits along freeways due to slushy conditions.
Amtrak canceled some trains from Chicago to Washington and New York and between New York and Boston and Pennsylvania on Sunday.
In Nebraska, authorities closed Omaha’s Eppley Airfield on Friday afternoon after a Southwest Airlines plane slid off an ice-slicked runway. No one was injured. The airfield later reopened.
The snow was part of a wall of hazardous weather that moved from the Dakotas across the Great Lakes states. The storm brought snow, ice and strong winds, followed by deep cold. The highest snowfall totals were expected in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
Further east, the National Weather Service in Albany, New York, said snow could fall at a rate of 1in to 3in an hour, creating “difficult to impossible travel conditions” in areas.
The storm prompted the cancellation of a Special Olympics competition in upstate New York. Nearly 200 athletes from around the state were expected to compete in snowshoeing, snowboarding, cross country and Nordic and Alpine skiing at West Mountain, just outside Glens Falls.
In New York City, the worst of the storm was expected from Saturday afternoon through Sunday afternoon, with snow accumulations of 3in to 6in followed by rain that could turn to ice as temperatures drop later on Sunday. Single-digit temperatures could last into Monday. Strong wind gusts beginning Sunday afternoon could bring down snow- or ice-burdened tree limbs and power lines.
Following the storm system, some areas of the midwest were expecting high winds and bitter cold. In Iowa, temperatures in the teens on Saturday were expected to drop below 0F (-17C) overnight, producing wind chills as low as -20F (-29C) by Sunday morning.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/19/plane-skids-off-chicago-runway-winter-storm-midwest
Southwest Airlines plane skids off runway in Nebraska
Saturday, January 19, 2019 06:33AM
OMAHA (WPVI) – Snow and ice may have played a role in a Southwest Airlines plane skidding off a runway.
It happened Friday night at Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska.
Southwest officials say the plane landed safely, but over-ran the runway while taxiing.
No one was injured.
https://6abc.com/weather/southwest-airlines-plane-skids-off-runway-in-nebraska/5097001/