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December 17, 2007

Plane that left Green runway being moved to hangar

WARWICK -- The US Airways Express aircraft that slid off a T.F. Green Airport runway last night is in the process of being moved to a hangar where federal authorities will investigate the mishap.

Patti Goldstein, an airport spokeswoman, said today that she believed cranes may be out there.

She said the airport's main, longer runway is currently closed. Flights are using runway 1634 -- the crosswinds runway -- and while certain wind conditions can affect when a plane can and can't use that runway, she said it has not affected any flights today.

When the aircraft is moved out of that location, Goldstein said, the airport will get approval at some point to reopen the runway.

The airport's Web site shows 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. No one was hurt.

"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

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 11:51 AM | Permalink

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