Maybe Tundra Tires Should Be An Option..?

Passengers on at least two airliners got to experience grass field operations this weekend.

In Columbus, OH passengers on a Continental flight arriving at Port Columbus International Airport (CMH) in a snowstorm Friday night commented they thought the taxiway was unusually bumpy. One passenger told 10 TV News, "You looked outside and you could tell you were in the grass."

The pilot missed a turn while exiting the runway, resulting in the 737-300 running off the end. There were no injuries reported in the incident, which happened about 11:30 pm local time Friday. The plane had brought its 131 passengers in from Houston.

A few hours later, about 8:15am Saturday morning, a Northwest DC-9 arriving at Mitchell International Airport (MKE) in Milwaukee, WI from Minneapolis made what appeared to be a routine landing on the main north-south runway, but the pilot missed a turn and wound up with the nosewheel in snow-covered grass, with the back of the plane still blocking the runway.

Snow removal crews scrambled to clear the longer of the airport's two east-west runways, and told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel normal flights were to resume within two hours after the incident.

Again, no injuries were reported, and the plane was said to be stuck but undamaged.

FMI: www.mitchellairport.com/, www.columbusairports.com/default.asp