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Vikings Plane Skids into Grass After Landing at Appleton International Airport

December 24, 2016   ·     ·   Jump to comments

There was a scary situation for the Minnesota Vikings with the team plane skidding off the runway at Appleton International Airport in Wisconsin on Friday. 
Per ESPN.com's Ben Goessling, the plane slid into a patch of grass as it was taxiing after landing at the airport:
A league source said everyone on the plane is fine, but added that players, coaches and team officials had been stuck for about 2½ hours, and said the airport might need to use fire trucks to get players off the plane and safely off the runway.
A Vikings source told ESPN's Josina Anderson that the plane landed relatively fine but skidded while taxiing.
"We didn't even slide 10 feet" the source told Anderson, before adding they were "deplaning soon."
Chris Long of ESPN 1500 captured a picture of the Vikings' team plane stuck on the ground:
Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway provided video from the plane:
Tight end Kyle Rudolph also took to Twitter to talk about the exper...

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