American Airlines jet slides off icy taxiway

DALLAS — An American Airlines jet slipped off a taxiway after landing at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Monday night.

The airline said the plane's nosewheel left the pavement and got stuck in mud as the MD-80 aircraft was taxiing at a slow speed, and it was unable to continue to Terminal A.

"There wasn't a jolt; we came down smooth ... we touched the ground smooth," a passenger told WFAA-TV. "We kind of just glided off the runway to the left a little bit. We still had at least one wheel on the ground; we were slightly tilted to the left."

A photo tweeted from the scene showed some of the 63 passengers aboard Flight 286 from San Antonio being evacuated using the jet's built-in aft stairway. Buses were used to shuttle the passengers to the terminal.

No injuries were reported, and the airline was making arrangements to reunite passengers with their luggage.

Almost a thousand arrivals and departures at D/FW were canceled Monday because of icy weather conditions.