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December 17, 2007

Alert: Main runway at T.F. Green re-opens / Photo

Journal photo / Sandor Bodo
The US Airways Express plane that slid off the main runway at Green Airport last night was being moved off the runway area today.

WARWICK -- The main runway of T.F. Green Airport reopened at 1:30 p.m. today, a day after a US Airways Express flight carrying 31 passengers slid off the runway. No one was injured.

The aircraft came to rest alongside the runway and required the runway to be closed until the aircraft could be removed. Cranes had been working to move the aircraft, apparently to a hangar where it will be examined.

While the main runway -- known as 5-23 -- was closed, Patti Goldstein, an airport spokeswoman, said flights were using runway 16-34 -- the crosswinds runway -- and while certain wind conditions can affect when a plane can and can't use that runway, she said it had not affected any flights today.

"While normal operations resumed last evening around 7:30 p.m., the reopening of the primary runway provides aircraft additional options for arrivals and departures as the weather changes throughout the day," says an afternoon news release from Rhode Island Airport Corporation. "Airline flights are operating normally today. However, if passengers have any questions, they are encouraged to contact their air carrier directly."

The airport's Web site showed most departures and arrivals have not been delayed or cancelled. The cancellations the airport has seen have been because of weather conditions in other parts of the country, Goldstein said.

The plane, Flight 3758, was arriving at Green from Philadelphia early last evening when the incident happened.

"We will be cooperating with the [National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration] to find out every detail we can about what happened," Barb Jones, spokeswoman for Air Wisconsin, a regional carrier for US Airways, said today.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

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