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For the airport to advise of runway condition, and they probably did. it might be a situation where they just had to get this flight down. >> again, we don't know exactly what happened here. the problem whether the problem was in the air or happened only when that flight landed. this is the best picture we've had so far. you can see the passengers evacuating this delta flight 1086, originated in atlanta, landed here in new york city just a short time ago. it's an md-80 aircraft. you can also see clearly the nose of that plane pushed up over the berm at laguardia, through the fence there. i don...

On runway 13. that may mean something to you. i'm just the passenger when we land on these flights so that may give you perspective and it slid off here. it was an md-88, but in these kinds of conditions especially at laguardia tom, you and i both know that they often had shut down what it seems like rather quickly. >> yeah, no that's absolutely true. this is, you know i -- i'm not sure now if this is the busiest or jfk is the busiest airport in new york. they rival each other clearly for domestic travel. laguardia is the busiest, and as you know it's a difficult airport to come into because y...

What happened. it's going to take them a long time to figure it out though, right? >> yes. two things investigated -- this is the different roles of the innocent ntsb and the faa. ntsb will look at the proximate cause or the last thing that could have prevented the accident before it happened and that most likely fall on the pilot because the pilot is the one that makes the decision as to whether he wants to accept the conditions at the one erunway or not. the faa has nine responsibilities within those is one of did the proper procedure, procedure procedures followed in order to buy the airpor...

One of america's busiest airports. the flight from atlanta was coming in for a landing at laguardia. then lost control, ending up just feet from the water. >> as soon as we landed we felt the wheels hit the runway and we did not feel the wheels take traction and we started to skid and we skid to the left side of the runway and we continued to skid. we literally were a couple feet away from heading into the water. >> reporter: airport officials say the two planes that landed on the runway before the delta flight reported good braking action. 127 passengers aboard the md-88 were evacuated from t...

Is continuing to snow here very heavily which is going to make life very difficult for individuals who are trying to clean up that mess. i can tell you that our steve mackalak, a photo journalist with cnn is at the scene now. you can see the plane surrounded with ambulances, lots of emergency help there, but as we understand it, everybody has been removed from the plane and we believe at this point only minor injuries. john? >> miguel marquez stand by. we have a new statement from the faa on what's happening here. the delta incident, 1086 flight from atlanta. this is the statement from the faa...