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90s Boy Band Star’s Private Plane Skids Off Airport Runway, Crashes Into Fence

New Kids on the Block singer Donnie Wahlberg was on board a private jet that ran off the runway at Harry Reid International Airport.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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A private jet skidded off the runway at Las Vegas’ main airport and crashed into a fence this weekend. New Kids on the Block star Donnie Wahlberg was on board.

In an Instagram post, the 57-year-old boy band singer explained that the incident happened in the late morning at Harry Reid International Airport on Sunday, Oct. 18. “We were taking off and didn’t get up in the air and ran out of runway,” Wahlberg said in a video clip.

“I’m just going to tell you these pilots saved our lives. And God covered us,” he continued. “We just finished praying, and I looked out the window and said, ‘We are not........

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