2 taken to hospital after aircraft skids off runway at Abbotsford airport in snowy weather

An Island Express Air plane skidded off the runway at Abbotsford International Airport early Friday afternoon as heavy snow blanketed the Lower Mainland.

Airport general manager Parm Sidhu said 10 people were on board, eight passengers and 2 crew members. None had life-threatening injuries.

“Around 12 o’clock, we received notification that an aircraft had gone off radar,” he said. “We inspected the airfield and we found a King Air north of the runway.”

Sidhu said two of the passengers were taken to hospital and