SWA off taxiway (again)...

[Squawk7777]

from SWA's Facebook:

STATEMENT ON FLIGHT 4695:

This morning, Flight #4695 leaving Islip for Tampa exited the taxiway during taxi from the gate. The aircraft had 129 Customers on board, and there were no reported injuries. The Customers deplaned the aircraft and were bussed back to the terminal where a replacement aircraft will take them to their original destination. Maintenance crews are working to move the aircraft and evaluate it for any damage.

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[Airbubba]

During radio communications with air traffic controllers, one of the pilots of Flight 4695 announced that “we just made your day more interesting” after the plane became stuck.

“We just taxied off the taxiway into the grass,” the pilot said, according to a recording posted to LiveATC.net. “We’re going to have to get the people off the aircraft and something in here to tow the aircraft onto the pavement.”


Feds Investigating Flight That Veered Off Taxiway at MacArthur Airport (http://morichesdaily.com/2012/12/southwest-737-veers-taxiway-macarthur-airport/)

[aterpster]

Another cowboy experience.

[westhawk]

Another cowboy experience.

Own much LUV stock terp? :eek:

[CptRegionalJet]

Get Joe on the phone,quick;)

[sevenstrokeroll]

oh well...stuff happens...could have been worse.

[westhawk]

Get Joe on the phone,quickhttp://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/wink2.gifClassic Airport reference! :ok:

Mc Crosky: Get me Rex Kramer!

Classic airplane! reference (http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/airplane.txt).

[galant1]

third one this year and winter season has not started yet.

[cactusbusdrvr]

Maybe they will slow taxi speeds down to 45 knots.

[Dannyboy39]

Two in one day?! What are the odds!

[sikeano]

Must be the festive spirit

[Pudzilla]

Perhaps the airlines are testing new offroad tyres?

[Lone_Ranger]

YeeeeeeeeeeeeHaaaa

[sevenstrokeroll]

heard a plane went off (slippery runway) took 3 hours to get people to terminal...but they (news media) didn't say which airline.