Gov. Mike Pence, second from right, talks on the tarmac at New York's LaGuardia Airport after his campaign plane slide off the runway while landing on Oct. 27. | AP Photo Pence plane skids off runway, passengers OK

A plane carrying Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence skidded off the runway Thursday evening after landing at New York's LaGuardia airport. No one was injured.

Pence was traveling with his wife and eldest daughter, a cadre of aides, Secret Service personnel and a traveling press corps. The plane is operated by a private Miami-based charter company, Eastern Airlines.


"We just immediately felt heavy braking on the runway and the plane fishtailed a little bit and just for a few seconds you could feel us bouncing off and with mud splattered up on the windows," Pence said Friday on Good Morning America. "We figured we were off the runway but thank god everybody was fine."

Pence also praised the pilots and first responders for their "quick action."

A senior Pence aide said that everyone kept calm.

“Everyone realized the plane was skidding, but I don’t think there was panic,” said Marc Short, a senior Pence aide who was aboard the plane.

After the plane had stopped, Pence made his way to the back of the aircraft “to make sure everybody was OK,” Short said, and then thanked the pilots.

Pence was hardly shaken by the incident. He called into the finance event at Trump Tower shortly after the landing, and spoke on speaker phone as he would no longer be able to make it in person, according to spokesperson Marc Lotter, who was with Pence aboard the plane.

Rescue vehicles came to the plane, though all the passengers were able to exit without assistance. Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway called Short soon after the incident to make sure no one was hurt. Donald Trump called Pence twice while they were still on the runway and finally got through on the third call and spoke with Pence, Short said. Within an hour of the incident, Pence and his aides had departed the airport.



Trump later Thursday told a rally in Geneva, Ohio, “I just spoke to our future vice-president and he’s OK. Do you know he was in a big accident with a plane? The plane skidded off the runway and was pretty close to grave danger but I just spoke to Mike Pence and he’s fine. He got out. Everybody’s fine.”

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton tweeted: "Glad to hear@mike_pence, his staff, Secret Service, and the crew are all safe. -H."

“Nobody has been hurt, we’re going through all our standard operating procedures and cooperating with all authorities,” said Nick Loudon, executive director of special projects at Eastern Airlines. “We don’t want to make any assumption [about] what happened yet.”

“A new plane is headed to New York and the governor will be out on the trail tomorrow,” Lotter said. Pence has stops Friday planned in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

Upon arriving at his Manhattan hotel, Pence gave a thumbs-up and the “OK” sign to waiting reporters before making his way inside.

-- Cristiano Lima contributed to this report