Plane slides off runway in Chicago

A plane slid off the runway on Monday morning at Chicago O’Hare International Airport amid hazardous weather conditions. No passengers were injured during the scare.

“After landing, American Eagle flight 4125, operated by Envoy Air, slid off the runway due to icy conditions at Chicago O’Hare,” American Airlines spokeswoman Sarah Jantz told USA TODAY in a statement. “No injuries were reported. All 38 passengers and three crew members were deplaned from the aircraft and are now safely back in the terminal.”

Twitter users circulated footage of the incident, which shows the plane skidding into the median and its right wing tip scraping the snow-covered ground. Once it came to a stop, a woman can be heard saying, “I think we landed!”

Passengers were removed from the plane, which came from Greensboro, North Carolina, and transported via bus to an airport gate, according to Karen Pride, the director of media relations for the Chicago Department of Aviation.

Pride added that the incident “had a moderate impact in overall flight operations at the airport.”

Passenger Shaun Steele told ABC7 Chicago that the plane was on its second landing attempt when the skid occurred: “The first one, we went back up after we noticed conditions were bad. We made a loop for about 20 minutes ... As soon as we landed, we could start feeling something a little off there and we tried to do a little turn and that’s when we started going sideways.”

FlightAware data confirms Flight 4125 got as low as 625 feet before picking up altitude and climbing to 5,000 feet as the plane circled for another try.

By 2:30 p.m. CST, the backlog of canceled flights in and out of O’Hare had increased to nearly 875 and the delays numbered more than 850, per FlightAware.