One runway at LaGuardia has reopened after a plane crash shut down the New York airport late Thursday morning.

Delta Airlines Flight 1086 from Atlanta landed on Runway 13 and “skidded into a fence” around 11:05 a.m. Thursday, the port authority said in a statement.

Twenty-eight people sustained non-life-threatening injuries from the incident, with five transported to the hospital, according to a Tweet sent out by the Fire Department of New York.

Pat Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said at a news conference that Runway 13 was closed after the plane skidded off the runway amid a heavy snowstorm.

The airport’s second runway was expected to open at 2 p.m., but remained closed as of 3 p.m., according to a Tweet from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

All 127 passengers and five crew members “were deplaned safely and removed to the terminal in buses,” a Delta airlines spokesperson said at the news conference.

Two other planes had reported good braking conditions moments before Delta Airlines Flight 1086 veered left off the runway and crashed into a fence at LaGuardia airport Thursday morning, Foye.

Foye also said the runway had been plowed “literally minutes before” the incident.

After the crash, he said there was a “minor” fuel spill that was stopped, and that conservation authorities were on the scene.

The plane went off the 7,000-foot runway about 4,500 feet into its landing, Foye said at the conference. While runways are equipped with an “engineered materials arrestor system” to halt aircrafts that overshoot landings, Flight 1086 veered off to the side before reaching that point, he said.

The airport is situated beside Flushing Bay, and though the plane broke through fencing on the edge of the though runway, Foye said the aircraft never made contact with the water.

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the incident, he said.

The Port Authority asked travellers to check their flight’s status if they are scheduled to travel through the airport on Thursday.

Flights are already delayed or cancelled at LaGuardia and other New York-area airports as a snowstorm batters the U.S. eastern seaboard. Between seven and 15 centimetres of snow are forecast to fall in New York City by the end of the day.

A deep freeze is then expected to settle in across the Greater New York area overnight Thursday and into Friday.

Meanwhile, passengers waiting inside the terminal to board their flights posted images of the plane to social media.

One Instagram user posted a video of passengers filing off the plane and walking across the snowy runway under dark grey skies.

The nose of the plane appears to have broken through a fence.

 

 

 

Thank God! No one hurt �� we could of ended up in the water! #survive #thankgod #ice #safelanding

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This map shows approximately where the plane came to a stop, at the edge of Runway 13.