NEW YORK (AFP) – Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence’s campaign plane slid off a runway after landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Thursday, the campaign said.
No injuries were reported.
“We could feel the plane sliding off the runway and then (it) came to a very sharp halt” after landing, CNN producer Elizabeth Landers, who was on the plane, told the channel.
“The governor and everyone on board is okay,” she said of Donald Trump’s running mate.
The Boeing 737 slid completely off the runway onto grass next to the tarmac, she added, saying there was mud and grass on the plane’s body and “gashes” on the runway.
The democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted about the incident.
Trump, who was campaigning in Ohio, called Pence after the accident, spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said. “He reached out to Governor Pence and he is very glad everyone aboard is safe,” she said.