E-170 skids off runway (Cleveland)

[Kip Powick]

A passenger jet skidded off a runway and smashed through a fence while landing Sunday in windy and icy conditions at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

But none of the 70 passengers and four crew members were injured, an FAA spokeswoman said.

Shuttle America Flight 6448, which had taken off from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, was landing in Cleveland at 3:14 p.m. when it left the end of Runway 28 and crashed through the fence, FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said.

Although operated by Shuttle America, the flight was part of the Delta Connection network, Wilkinson said.

"For reasons unknown, the plane did skid off the end of the runway, taking out a localizer antenna array used for that runway, going through a fence line," said airport spokeswoman Pat Smith.

The antenna is used to help aircraft align with the center of the runway.

"The nose of the aircraft is resting just barely on a roadway that is on our perimeter fence line," Smith said.

Shuttle America spokesman Warren Wilkinson said the plane came to a stop about 100 feet past the end of the runway.

Although conditions on the runway were listed as fair at the time of the mishap, a heavy snow was falling, Wilkinson said.

CNN meteorologist Jackie Jeras said winds of 21 mph were measured at the airport around the time of the incident.

Flights into and out of the Cleveland airport were halted for more than an hour after the mishap, Smith said.

A bus took the passengers to the terminal and arrangements were made for the jet to be towed to a hangar, Smith said.

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Update:

CLEVELAND — A commuter plane carrying about 75 people ran off the end of a runway and pierced a fence after landing at the Cleveland airport, officials said. No injuries were reported.

The flight, traveling from Atlanta to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, landed around 3 p.m., said Thonnia Lee, a spokeswoman for Delta Air Lines Inc. The flight was operated by Shuttle America, a Delta connection carrier, she said.

The cause was not yet known, airport spokeswoman Pat Smith said. It was snowing at the time, with visibility at about a quarter- to a half-mile, said Dan Leins, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Cleveland.

The Embraer 170 was carrying about 70 passengers and four crew members, officials said.

Smith said the plane skidded through an instrument array and went partially through the fence before coming to a stop more than 150 feet past the end of the runway. The engines were partially buried in snow and the tip of the plane's nose was resting on a roadway the airport uses to get to perimeter buildings, she said.

The airport was closed for about an hour and a half and some planes were diverted to other cities, Smith said, although she did not know how many. The runway that the plane ran off will be closed indefinitely, she said.

Another aircraft that landed on the runway about eight minutes before reported no braking problems, she said.

[Kip Powick]

Fun with the English language................

Another aircraft that landed on the runway about eight minutes before reported no braking problems, she said.

Sooooo did the aircraft report they had no problems with the braking action ....or did they report they had "no braking"....problems....