quote today,call liberty mutual insurance at see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. welcome back. if you re just joining us we want to get you up to date on the breaking news out of new york city. this is the aircraft. the delta aircraft that skidded upon landing. a flight from atlanta. look how close it got to the water. it stopped just atop this berm this little hill at the end of this runway. it could have been a whole lot worse. you see how close it got to the water that surrounds basically la guardia airport. 131 people on that on board this plane and fortunately everyone seems to be okay. some minor injuries.
highway. heavy snoes have kept them stuck for more than 12 hours. we begin in new york city at la guardia airport. the nose of this delta plane crashing right through a fence just feet away from a huge body of water before it came to a stop. six people were hurt. some have been taken to local hospitals. 125 passengers were on this delta flight. jared was one of them. he s joining us on the phone from new york. are you okay? i am. i am. tell us what happened. so i was sitting in first class, fly all the time. we were circling new york city because of the weather conditions the pilots had announced that the snow and the ice, that we were delayed in landing and then we were given clearance to land. as soon as we landed we felt the wheels hit the runway and we did not feel the wheels take traction and we started to skid. and we skid to the left side of
one person we re told taeken to hospital. miguel marquez is our man at la guardia airport right now. from that picture we got, you see how close it actually that nose of that delta aircraft actually got to the water surrounding la guardia airport. if it skidded a little bit more it would have gone into that water. reporter: it is amazing to see how close it was. that plane skidded as soon as it hit the runway. i just spoke to another pilot who landed about 15, 20 minutes before that delta pilot landed. he says it was slick but conditions could have changed even more to the extreme side by the time that delta flight came in for a landing. clearly, from the passenger that you spoke to, from passengers we ve heard from here when that plane hit the runway it got no traction and then skidded literally a hard left hit that embankment went up over that embankment the wing broke off.
at least until 7:00 p.m. eastern later tonight. david, stay with us for a moment. i want to go back to miguel marquez over at la guardia airport. you re getting new pictures on what happened? reporter: yeah, we re getting a very clear picture of what the front of that plane looks like. it gives a sense of how fast that plane was going when it hit the berm. you can see the cockpit hanging over that berm over the bay. the nose cone of that plane is off, destroyed clearly. and the landing gear you can see literally the landing gear ripped from the bottom of the plane giving you a sense of just what a jolt passengers had as that plane came in for a landing. according to everybody that we ve either heard from, seen reported or that you ve talked to on your own show that plane hits the runway and then began to skid almost immediately without ever gaining traction. fish tailing basically out to the left. the wing at some point came off
we had to go down the slide and slide off the side of the plane. we were standing in snow for a few minutes while they were getting all the buses and emergency workers there. a few of the ladies were pregnant. we had them get on the first few buses and obviously the men followed suit. they made sure all of our luggage stayed on the plane. so it was just our phones and wallet we could take with us. jared, did you have any warning from the pilot as you were coming in for the landing from atlanta out to land at la guardia airport that there could be a problem? no i mean the only thing was the tip we had we were delayed for a few minutes circling the city which is not unusual given the amount of air traffic and if you fly allot, just kind of, no big deal. but as soon as the wheels touched down especially for myself and the gentleman sitting next to me we were both in first class. we knew something was wrong.