LaGuardia Airport runway crash — in pictures

The nose was leaning on a grass verge that separates the runway from Flushing Bay. Passengers saddled with bags and bundled up in heavy coats and scarves were helped down from a wing and onto the snowy pavement, just feet from the water. New York Fire Department / AP Photo

“If we wouldn’t have hit the snowbank, we’d be in the water right now,” said Charles Runels, a passenger from Atlanta. Mike Segar / Reuters

Six people had non-life-threatening injuries, and at least two were taken to the hospital, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport. Andrew Gombert / EPA

Flight 1086, carrying 125 passengers and five crew members, veered off the runway at around 11.10am local time, authorities said. NYPD Special Ops / handout via Reuters

Malcolm Duckett, a marketing executive from Georgia, said passengers were told they had to exit over the wing because the rear door was too close to the water. NYPD Special Operations Division / AP Photo

LaGuardia is one of the most congested airports in the United States, and its two runways are shorter than those at most other major airports. Andrew Gombert / EPA

The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending an investigator to retrieve the plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders and to document damage to the plane. JUSTIN LANE Justin Lane / EPA

The runway where the Delta flight landed was ploughed and two other pilots reported good braking conditions minutes before the Delta plane landed, said Patrick Foye, the Port Authority’s executive director. Justin Lane / EPA

Mr Foye said the Delta pilot did everything he could to slow the aircraft. Both runways closed after the crash, but one reopened at 2pm. Frank Franklin II / AP Photo

he nose was leaning on a grass verge that separates the runway from Flushing Bay. Passengers saddled with bags and bundled up in heavy coats and scarves were helped down from a wing and onto the snowy pavement, just feet from the water. Everyone was silent as the plane slid, but some children started crying after it came to a stop, passengers said. Frank Franklin II / AP Photo

Passengers trudged through the snow in an orderly line after climbing off the plane Amber Reid / AP Photo

A Delta plane from Atlanta skidded off a LaGuardia Airport runway while landing during a snowstorm on Thursday and crashed through a chain-link fence, its nose coming to rest perilously close to the icy waters of a bay.