Feds probe Southwest plane stuck in mud at MacArthur
Southwest Airlines flight 4965, which was headed from Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma to Tampa, Fla., with 129 passengers and 5 crew members, veered off a taxiway and got stuck in the mud Thursday morning. The FAA and NTSB are investigating. Videojournalists: Ed Betz and James Carbone (Dec. 27, 2012) (December 27, 2012 5:15 PM)
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A departing Southwest Airlines jet with 129 passengers and five crew aboard veered off a taxiway before dawn at rainy Long Island MacArthur Airport Thursday and came to a stop in mud.
No one aboard the Tampa, Fla.-bound Boeing 737 was injured, and all passengers were returned to the terminal where they booked other flights or waited for Southwest to bring in another plane, airport officials...
