Record snowfall in Wichita, Kansas, creates havoc at the airport where crews had to dig out a plane stuck on the tarmac. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News
A winter storm moved Friday into the Midwest, where it dumped a band of snow over the Great Lakes states and made for an icy morning commute after sweeping through the Great Plains.
The Weather Channel said Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Detroit could all expect up to 6 inches of snow on Friday. Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Charleston, W.Va., were expecting up to a quarter-inch of ice, enough to make roads dangerous.
The storm is expected to move into the Northeast and deliver a third straight weekend of significant snow. Interior sections of New England could get as much as a foot.
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In Cleveland, a United Airlines 737 jet skidded off the runway into the grass and snow after landing from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., airport officials said. There were no reported injuries, and the passengers were taken by bus to the terminal.
The runway was in good condition at the time of the landing, said Jacqueline Mayo, a spokeswoman for the Cleveland airport. Freezing rain had just moved out of the area.
On Thursday, as the storm hammered the Plains, a United regional jet from Denver got stuck in the snow after landing at the airport in Wichita, Kan. Workers tried to clear a path so that buses could collect the passengers, but the tarmac was too slick, and the plane was stuck for about two hours.
Passengers said that flight attendants passed out cookies and that passengers and crew stayed upbeat.
?By far the most entertaining delay I?ve ever had in my life,? passenger Joshua Locke said. ?This has just been laughable to me.?
Wichita reported 14.2 inches of snow, the second-largest total on record there. More remote parts of Kansas got 18 inches. Omaha, Neb., reported 8 inches and Sioux City, Iowa, 10 inches.
On Friday, O?Hare airport in Chicago reported delays of an hour and a half, and Cincinnati reported more than 45 minutes. The airport in Kansas City, shut down earlier this week in heavy snow, reopened, but most morning flights were delayed.
In Cincinnati, a semi lost control on an icy overpass, leaving one wheel dangling over the edge. No one was hurt, but part of Interstate 71 was closed for a time, and the truck was leaking fuel, NBC affiliate WLWT in Cincinnati reported.
A medical helicopter crashed in Oklahoma City, killing two people and injuring a third, but it was not immediately clear whether the storm played a role, The Associated Press reported.
Earlier this week, the storm forced road closures in California and delays in a pro golf tournament in Arizona, where it dusted cactus-tops with snow.
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The storm was blamed for two deaths on Wednesday. A 19-year-old Nebraska woman was killed in a two-car collision, and an 18-year-old man in Oklahoma died when his truck slid into a tractor-trailer on a slushy highway.
Reuters contributed to this report.
Much of the Midwest is covered in a blanket of white as a massive winter storm has covered parts of Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas with over a foot of snow. NBC's John Yang reports.
This story was originally published on Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:32 AM EST
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