MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A Delta jet slipped off a taxiway Friday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport but no one was injured in the incident, an airport spokeswoman said.
The plane, a 757, had just arrived from Atlanta with 189 passengers onboard at about 7:20 p.m. It was on a taxiway connecting a main runway with a gate when its right main wheel slid off the pavement into a patch of grass, airport spokeswoman Melissa Scovronski told the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune.
She said maintenance workers cleared snow from around the wheel and put sand around it -- "basically like you would do with a car, but on a bigger scale" -- getting the wheel free by about 8:30 p.m.
The flight was one of more than two dozen that were canceled or delayed by a snowstorm in the region Friday. At least 5 or 6 inches of snow were forecast for the Minneapolis-St. Paul area Friday night.
The Minnesota State Patrol said it responded to reports of 151 highway crashes Friday afternoon and evening. UPI
