UPDATE: According to cornerback Isaiah Rodgers, the Vikings have arrived safely in New Jersey.
Our favorite football team is going to get to their destination for Sunday afternoon’s game a little later than they were planning.
Approximately an hour after it took off from Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on Saturday afternoon, the Minnesota Vikings’ team plane was forced to turn around and come back because of mechanical issues. The team has finally gotten off the ground as of around 7:30 PM Central time and is on its way to Newark, New Jersey, where they will land before heading to the hotel prior to Sunday’s game against the New York Giants.
According to Vikings’ sideline reporter Ben Leber (per a story from the Daily Mail), the landing gear hatch on the first plane did not close after the first plane took off, necessitating the plane coming back to Minneapolis.
The Vikings aren’t the first NFL team to experience plane issues this week. The Los Angeles Rams also experienced a significant delay when problems with their plane delayed their flight to Seattle ahead of their Thursday Night Football matchup.
The flight to the East Coast takes around three hours, which means that by the time the Vikings finally get off the plane in New Jersey, it’s going to be nearly midnight local time. Certainly not an ideal situation.
Hopefully, the Vikings’ second flight to New Jersey will get to where it’s going without incident.
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