Plane skids into snow bank at JFK

JFK Airport closed for a couple of hours as bitter weather conditions sweep over America's northeast.

Plane skids into snow bank at JFK

A plane at New York's John F Kennedy Airport. (AAP)

A plane has skidded into a snowbank in freezing conditions at New York's John F Kennedy Airport, which temporarily ceased operations because of the icy conditions.

The airport was closed at 8.32am (0032 AEDT) on Sunday after a Delta Airlines jet from Toronto slid into snow on a taxiway, officials say.

There were no injuries to the 35 people on board, according to ABC News.

The airport, which handles international and domestic flights and is one of the largest in the US, reopened shortly before 11am.

Many flights were delayed by nearly two hours while around 15 flights were cancelled, according to the air traffic monitoring website flightaware.com.

There were also delays at the nearby LaGuardia and Newark airports.

On Saturday, a small plane made an emergency landing on a highway in the Bronx borough of New York, injuring the pilot and two passengers, as the area battled a bitter cold snap.

The US is in the midst of a brutal cold spell that has left at least a dozen people dead and seen some of the coldest weather in two decades.


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