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After a near disaster with his plane. the crews are moving the plane off the runway at laguardia. it skidded off the runway by grand central parkway. the ntsb team is on the ground right now. this happened while landing on a rainy, windy runway. cnn producer liz landers traveling with the pence campaign. >> reporter: you could feel the plane skidding. you could feel the back of the plane which is where the press is. it felt like it was fishtailing and moving side to side. and the plane came to a...

Light on it. a 777 captain. les, thank you for being with us. is it just a case of a short runway? >> i have been in and out of laguardia several times during the course of my career. it is a challenging airport. a short runway relative to most major airports. last night as we know in the northeast, we had a very, very nasty cold snap that had snow associated with it. at this particular time it was rain. we had a slick runway. you have to be on your game. im not implying the crew did anything wr...