Buffalo Bills Stuck In The Mud...AgainFront wheels of the team's chartered plane became bogged in the muck off a taxiway.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Scott Berchtold of the Buffalo Bills talks with Darren Toms about the delays.
Airport Director Fred Szabo talks with Newsradio WTAM 1100's Darren Toms(Cleveland) - It just wasn't the Buffalo Bills weekend.
First, they lost to the Browns 8-0 in blizzard-like conditions at Browns Stadium Sunday afternoon. That ended their playoff possibilities.
Then the weather cancelled their charter flight home to Buffalo Sunday evening.
Then their chartered plane has gotten stuck in the mud at Hopkins.
Airport Director Fred Szabo says the Delta pilot was making his way from a runway to a taxiway when the pilot took a turn too wide. That put a wheel and nose of the plane into the mud. The wheels sunk about a foot into the soft ground.
The Bills hadn't boarded yet, and none of the crew was hurt.
The team then chartered buses for the trip home. They arrived safely several hours and a band of lake-effect snow later.
Back at Hopkins, Szabo says they put plywood in front of the wheels, and pulled the plane back on the taxiway just before Noon. The plane was being checked for any residual problems.
Air traffic was not affected because the incident happened off the taxiway.
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