title: americas small town in canada
text: a plane carrying republican vice presidential candidate mike pence slid off the runway while landing at new york citys laguardia airport thursday evening 
  there was no immediate word of any injuries 
  the aircraft a boeing  tore up two tracks of concrete on the runway before coming to rest on a patch of grass the federal aviation administration said in a statement a crushable concrete runway safety technology called an engineered material arresting system stopped the plane 
  we seemed to be sliding for the distance of the landing and a burning smell became very obvious  like rubber fox news producer dan gallo wrote in an email hard to see much from these plane windows but emergency vehicles are here pictwittercomxaknsgduwd 
   dan gallo dangallo october   
  according to gallo pence said that he saw mud on windows at the front of the plane when he came to check on passengers in the rear of the aircraft 
  we can see mud on the front windows a calm pence said in the press cabin about a minute after the plane came to rest he said he felt fine 
  so thankful everyone on our plane is safe pence said in a later tweet  grateful for our first responders  the concern  prayers of so many back on the trail tomorrow so thankful everyone on our plane is safe grateful for our first responders  the concern  prayers of so many back on the trail tomorrow 
   mike pence mike_pence october   
  the roughly  passengers and crew on board including pence were evacuated through the back of the aircraft as a large amount of emergency vehicles responded to the scene 
  campaign spokesman marc loetter later told reporters that pence had missed his fundraiser in new york city and was headed to his hotel for the night pence later called into his fundraiser being held at trump tower from the car in the motorcade as he drove into manhattan 
  campaign officials told fox news another plane is on the way and pence looks forward to being on the campaign trail on friday as planned 
  a trump campaign spokesperson told fox news in a statement the republican nominee reached out to his running mate after the incident 
  mr trump did reach out to gov pence and is very glad everyone on board plane is safe trump campaign spokesperson stephanie grisham said 
  trump later told a crowd a campaign rally in geneva ohio that everbody is fine 
  i just spoke to our future vice president and hes okay trump told supporters do you know he was in a big accident wth the plane the plane skidded off the runway and was pretty close to grave grave danger but i just spoke to mike pence and hes fine got out everybodys fine 
  democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton said in a tweet she was glad to hear everyone on board was safe glad to hear mike_pence  his staff secret service and the crew are all safe h 
   hillary clinton hillaryclinton october   
  new york citys office of emergency management said the airport was closed for roughly an hour a result of the incident due to a plane skidding off the runway laguardia is currently closed until further notice check with your airline for additional info 
   nycem  notify nyc notifynyc october   following an earlier incident laguardia airport has reopened to limited air traffic expect delays check with airline for additional info 
   nycem  notify nyc notifynyc october   
  new york city was being affected by heavy rain thursday evening it was not immediately clear whether that played a role in the landing