No flights are allowed in or out of John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City after a plane skidded off a runway earlier this morning. Nobody was injured, but that's a hell of a way to find out your asphalt's frozen.
Delta Flight 4100 from Toronto landed at 7:56 this morning, according to the New York Post, but a combination of freezing rain and ice that's been sitting for the past few days led to slippery conditions, to say the least.
BREAKING>> #JFK is closed after @Delta CRJ landed on 22L and skid into safety area on taxiway J. Runways are "an ice skating rink".
— NYCAviation (@NYCAviation) January 5, 2014
New York's major international airport is supposed to re-open at 11:30 AM. In case you're already in the air though, and you're wondering why you'll be circling for the next few hours while you land in Pittsburgh and you hate your life, not that this has ever happened to me or anything while desperately trying to get back from Las Vegas, ice is the reason.
Photo via Getty
UPDATE: Oh, and this is happening, too:
UPDATE:#Chicago Department of Aviation says 1200 flights canceled at O'Hare. Around 60 at Midway,
— Steve Grzanich (@SteveGrzanich) January 5, 2014
Good luck trying to get anywhere at all, in America, today.
Plane Skids Off Runway At JFK Airport, Runways Closed