Delta jet slides off taxiway in winter weather

A Delta Airlines Airbus A319 slid off a taxiway in Kansas City while taxiing in bad weather Friday, leading the airport to temporarily cease operations due to deteriorating winter conditions. Delta’s flight 1114, bound for Detroit, exited the taxiway pavement, the airport’s marketing manager Joe McBride, said. “Passengers were safely offloaded and bused to Terminal B. Crews will remove the aircraft sometime today,” he said. “It is not impeding much of the airfield.” The aircraft was carrying 149 passengers and crew. There were no known injuries, McBride says. The incident in Kansas City was the second this week involving a Delta aircraft. Tuesday, a Delta jet bound for Shanghai dumped fuel over a densely populated area of Los Angeles, dousing tens of schoolchildren and adults due to an “engine issue”. <br/>