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Davis. they landed it safely but today is a tough one. >> well, tamron the laguardia airport is one of the most difficult airports to land in due to the urban congestion. it's also really a peninsula that juts out into the bay and is bordered by water on all sides. it's approximately 7,000 feet long. that's the length of the runway that the md-80 landed on and it is a sufficient length even when the runway is contaminated with ice and snow for this type of jet to stop in time. the jet is equipped with reverse thrusters that basically reverses the power of the engines to slow the aircraft down....

Down. the situation made even more difficult by the rough weather that's rolled into new york yet again this morning and throughout the day. we'll continue to follow the breaking news out of -- out of laguardia and, tom, i think you have some more information for us? >> i'm -- i'm actually was talking to a colleague of minute. i'm really not passing on anything new but just to reiterate for those just joining us, this was the md-88 which as you know the md-80s made my mcdonnell douglas and boeing bought mcdonnell douglas, really a workhorse aircraft incredibly reliable. the md-80 series if you...

Factors here that may have contributed to this incident. and then lastly i would say about the md-88, this is from the md-80 series of planes built by mcdonald douglas. then boeing bought mcdonald douglas. a very very respected workhorse of a plane that's been around for the better part of 30 years. this particular subset the md-88, was specifically requested by delta. so the md-80 family as a whole came out, you know starting in the '80s or so but delta specifically asked their version of it the md-88, to come out in the late '80s, early '90s. it's been very reliable for delta. now they're st...

What happened to it? >> it is getting a comeback now. the winter weather is blowing people away in the south. >> that's my point. global warming. it's cold everywhere. >> it didn't warm up enough. you know, what's interesting is it keeps getting colder and colder. people can't seem to pull out of it. >> apparently elsa was arrested. true story. we will have that in this half hour, right? >> that's right. let me tell you about this, it is getting tough in the south, especially with the cold weather many vehicles sliding an skidding including an american airlines jet at the dallas-ft. worth ai...

We've seen it in smaller aircrafts. the wings come off,-- when you're trying to regain control -- we just had one of these events this past july with an md-80 aircraft they got into thunderstorm activity and they lost control of the airplane. during the recovery they went into a big corkscrew turn and ended up crashing into the ground. the airplane stayed together. it's just that the thunderstorm activity is what put them in an out of control situation. >> once again this year we have another malaysian-owned air flight that goes down with somewhat mysterious circumstances. is there something a...