{"id":26667,"date":"2019-02-14T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T14:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=26667"},"modified":"2019-02-14T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T14:32:12","slug":"westjet-flight-slides-off-pearson-taxiway-gets-stuck-in-snow-for-2-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/local\/gta\/westjet-flight-slides-off-pearson-taxiway-gets-stuck-in-snow-for-2-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"WestJet flight slides off Pearson taxiway, gets stuck in snow for 2 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<p>A WestJet\u00a0flight from Calgary to Toronto slid off a taxiway at Pearson airport late Wednesday, leaving passengers stranded for several hours before the plane was towed to safety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After landing at Toronto Pearson, upon turning\u00a0off the runway onto the taxiway, one of our 737-700 aircraft became stuck in snow,&#8221; the airline said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Six crew members and 123 passengers were aboard at the time. The flight in question used the designation\u00a0WS670.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services arrived at the scene around 10 p.m. and remained there for the duration of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers spent about two hours waiting for the plane to be dug out of the snow and towed to a gate.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, the airline said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at Pearson said earlier Wednesday that the airport was still\u00a0dealing with the &#8220;residual effects&#8221; of a winter storm that dumped snow, freezing rain and rain onto the GTA before temperatures plummeted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"contentFeedback\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WestJet\u00a0flight from Calgary to Toronto slid off a taxiway at Pearson airport late Wednesday, leaving passengers stranded for several hours before the plane was towed to safety. &#8220;After landing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3538,4437],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-14-at-9.31.17-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}