The airport and airline said a Delta plane left a runway from Pittsburgh on Wednesday during snowstorms.
There were no injuries after Delta flight 2231 with 77 people aboard the paved surface departed from Pittsburgh International Airport around 6:30 p.m. said in a statement.
The passengers had to be helped off the plane.
The plane, which according to Delta was a Boeing 717 with 72 passengers and five crew members, would leave Pittsburgh for Atlanta.
“We apologize to our customers for the delay and inconvenience,” Delta said in part in a statement.
There was snow in the area, but it was not clear if that was the cause or contributed to the incident.
A photo posted by a passenger on Twitter showed the jet in the snow and the first responders used mobile stairs in the back of the plane.
The photo was accompanied by gratitude: “Grateful that we are back on solid ground and for the firefighters and first responders who rescued us tonight.”
The NBC subsidiary WPXI of Pittsburgh reported that slide plates could not be used because of the nose-first downward angle of the aircraft.
Winter weather advice or warnings stretched early Thursday in a long band from Lubbock and Abilene in Texas, through southwest and central Pennsylvania to Philadelphia and Newark, New Jersey, according to the National Weather Service.
Earlier this week, what was described in the Pittsburgh area as moderate to heavy snow fell. Between 4 and 6 centimeters were observed on Tuesday afternoon in the city and area of Allegheny, according to the observations published by the weather service.
