For all you Bon Jovi fans-->(lotsa you i'm sure!!

[slouchy]

Pretty funny story Jon Bon comin into Hamilton:

Not a Nice Day here for Bon Jovi as jet skids

Mike Mcgill, Special to the Hamilton Spectator

This $6-million jet carrying super-rockers Bon Jovi slid off the end of the runway at John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport on Saturday. Its landing gear got stuck in the mud, but the band got to the first of its four Toronto concerts unhurt.

By Dana Borcea

The Hamilton Spectator

(Jan 23, 2006)

A luxury customized airliner carrying members of the band Bon Jovi overran the runway while trying to land in Hamilton early Saturday, its nose gear ending up stuck in the mud at the top of a hill.

It was a not-so-nice ending to a 13-minute flight from Buffalo as the band continues its Have a Nice Day tour.

The Boeing 707 touched down in rain on a slick runway at John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport just after 1 a.m. and slid off the end.

All 14 people on board escaped unharmed, said airport president Richard Koroscil.

He added he did not know what caused the accident and that the Transportation Safety Board of Canada would conduct the investigation.

An airport employee at the scene who did not want to be identified, helped evacuate the passengers from the rear of the plane.

He got no "attitude" from frontman Jon Bon Jovi. "He was just smiling and playing it cool," he said.

The worker added that despite the scare, band members were in "good spirits.

"They were relieved to be on the ground," he said. "But they were relaxed. They weren't panicking at all.

"Some of them even walked out with drinks," he said. "Typical rock star stuff, I guess."

The airplane landed in Hamilton because it doesn't have a curfew like Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Waiting vans whisked the band and its staff to Toronto once they cleared customs.

The band's plane spent the night and much of Saturday with its nose-gear stuck in the mud before crews were able to pull it out.

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration records show the plane is registered to Miami-based Lowa Ltd.

According to a website maintained by the plane's owners, the luxuriously renovated VIP jet has four bedrooms, a lounge and a stateroom, both complete with elaborate entertainment systems, two bathrooms, and a kitchen. It was recently listed for sale at $6 million US.

The jet was built in 1965 for Lufthansa Airlines, and was converted to VIP service in 1985, according to www.aviation.com.

This is the second runway incident at Munro airport in three months.

On Nov. 15, a corporate jet ran off a runway after landing in rain and fog. Nobody was hurt in that incident and the Gulfstream 100 was not damaged.

Reached in New York City, a spokesperson for Bon Jovi, Ken Sunshine, would only say the band members were "fine" and that the "the show will go on."

Bon Jovi boarded the privately chartered plane in Buffalo on Friday night after a concert and were headed to Toronto for a four-concert series at the Air Canada Centre.

Edited January 23, 2006 by Guest

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13 minute flight from buffalo to hamilton, for 14 people.

the decadence is pretty overwhelming.

perhaps someone should have told the pilot the runway was slippery when wet?

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[ollie]

perhaps someone should have told the pilot the runway was slippery when wet?

Take a bow sir.

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don't think i can take credit for that, i think it was cbc's headline about the event. i loved it though and though i would share without citing it.