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A Texas legislator had a close call Wednesday when the private plane he was one skidded off the runway while landing. Dade Phelan, a Republican who is in line to be the next Speaker of the House in Texas, said it was raining and “conditions were difficult” when the plane attempted to land at Angelina County Airport, about 110 miles northeast of Houston. Phelan described a frightening scene, but one in which incredibly no one was seriously injured. “We went through the end of the runway, across a street, and stopped in a pasture,” he told Beaumont, Texas TV station KFDM. “We all walked away. It was an unfortunate accident. The plane was in bad shape.” The pilot suffered minor injuries, but was walking around when first responders arrived. The plane’s three passengers were not hurt. Five MTA workers charged with raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars in massive overtime fraud Rapper Casanova surrenders to authorities after he’s indicted in ‘Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation’ gang takedown NYC ready to store 1.5 million doses of COVID vaccine, announces creation of pandemic response institute According to KTRE, a TV station in Lufkin, Texas, the brakes on the plane went out after the plane, a Cessna 551, touched down, resulting in the plane sliding past the end of the runway. “In talking to the pilot, he said that when he landed the anti-lock brakes failed on the jet and so he cut them off and cut them back on, and when he did he had no brakes at all,” airport manager Gary Letney said. Letney added that the plane was most likely permanently grounded. “The wings weren’t in the right position, it broke off all the landing gears, there was some underneath stuff that it pulled off that’s down there. So it’s pretty big damage,” he said. With News Wire Services Recommended on Daily News

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