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They hope to have the airport open at 6:59 p.m. tonight. but the port authority then subsequently said they hope to have runway 422 open. it should have been opened according to them, four minutes ago. we'll see how that plays out given all the environmental factors factors. it's snowing still up in new york. it may not be that easy to start bringing planes in in the middle of this investigation, when you've also detoured other flights to other neighboring airports. i did want to make the point about what the ntsb is going to start looking at now. they'll arrive on the scene, and it's pretty e...

This investigation. how likely is it that 422 is going to be active? >> i think that it will be active. simply because this aircraft was at the end of its landing run. and it was about 5,000 feet down the runway. that's almost one mile -- >> let me interrupt you quickly. we have passenger reaction from wnbc. >> what's going on? everybody had our seat belts on. it wasn't really that bad, but it was pretty scary. i'm just thankful that we didn't go into the water. >> so just thankful that they didn't go into the water, hearing there the reaction from certain passengers that were on board. anthon...

Conference, it confirms what we were discussing about 30 minutes ago when we said, you know, this plane apparently banked here. it didn't go all the way to the end of the runway. it banked here. so for the viewers just joining us runway 13 this is flushing bay right here. here's laguardia's main terminal. the airplane is coming in on runway 13 like this. and right about here we're told about 4500 to 5,000 feet down the runway it banks. it heads into the berm. this is a big berm that then separates the runway from flushing bay. so right in here is where the plane suddenly hangs a left. so it ne...

The port authority police train for this repeatedly during the last three weeks. there were two drills here at laguardia for exactly this circumstance. last thing i'll report we expect to open the other runway 422 at approximately 2:00 p.m. some flights have been diverted to newark and other airports as ron mentioned at the beginning of the conference, the ntsb is on the way to laguardia. we'll be cooperating with them cloelgs closely as with delta. we're not going to speculate or comment on causes of today's incident. with that ail turn it over to gail from delta airlines. >> thank you, pat. ...

During the last three weeks. there were two drills here at la guardia for exactly this circumstance. last thing i'll report is that we expect to open up the other runway 422 at approximately 2:00 p.m. some flights have been diverted to newark and to other airports. as ron mentioned at the beginning of the conference the ntsb is on the way to la guardia. we will be cooperating with them closely as with delta. we're not going to speculate or comment on the causes of today's accident. with that, i'll turn it over to delta airlines. >> thank you, pat. this morning, upon landing, delta flight 1086 ...