Brutal Weather Causes Boeing 717 to Skid off Taxiway at PIT

MIAMI – We don’t like it. We don’t like to see it happen, but it does happen a few times every winter. Even at the best-maintained airports by the best-trained pilots in the world.

And it happened last night in Pittsburgh (PIT). Delta Air Lines (DL) flight 2231, a Boeing 717 with 77 people on board, slid off the taxiway prior to its flight to Atlanta. The incident happened around 6:30 pm EST.

The airline said, “Delta teams worked with the airport authority to safely transport customers back to the terminal. We apologize to our customers for the delay and inconvenience and read more ⇒

Source:: “Airways Magazine”

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