Miami Heat Team Plane Skids at Milwaukee Airport
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Last night, the Miami Heat’s team plane was taxiing on the Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport when it went skidding across ice.
Reports say that there were no injuries and the players are fine.
The team’s charter plane was a Miami Air Boeing 737 that weighs-in over 187 thousand pounds.
The plane arrived 90 minutes after the airport had lifted the flight suspensions on all arrivals and departures due to the weather’s icy conditions.
Milwaukee’s local Fox affiliate reported also reported the cancelations of flights and that flights were diverted as well.
“I don’t think any of the players even noticed,” a Heat spokesperson told The Miami Herald. “It was really more of an inconvenience than anything. We had to wait an extra hour and a half to get towed over and deplane. Everyone was fine.”
The teams reported that the plane “never left the pavement” and the they realizes that the situation could have been much worse.
Upon landing in Milwaukee tonight the team plane slid while taxiing but never left the pavement. Everyone on board has deplaned and is ok.
The team officials described the incident as “annoying” and told the news that their passengers only knew that they were in a situation when the emergency vehicles arrive at the plane.
The Miami Heat plane incident occurs three weeks after the Minnesota Viking’s team planed slid of the Wisconsin’s Appleton International Airport runway.
Via:sportsyahoo
