Plane skids off runway at LaGuardia Airport

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(NBC NEWS) - An aircraft skidded on the runway at LaGuardia Airport and crashed into a fence as it tried to land amid a blinding wintry mix Thursday morning, Port Authority officials and sources familiar with the situation tell NBC 4 New York.

It wasn't clear how many people were on the Delta plane, an MD-88 headed to New York from Atlanta, Georgia, when it slid off the runway around 11 a.m. MD-88 planes seat 149 passengers.

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No serious injuries have been reported, according to a Federal Avitation Administration official.  

Photos posted to Twitter and other social media showed the tail of the plane dipping into the snow; the nose was pointed upward and appeared to be damaged.

Delta couldn't immediately be reached for comment.  


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