A Boeing jetliner with 143 people aboard from the U.S. outpost at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, slid off a runway into a shallow river in Jacksonville, Florida, on Friday while attempting to land at a military base there during a thunderstorm, injuring 21 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were \nno reports of fatalities or critical injuries. The Jacksonville \nSheriff\u2019s Office said on Twitter that all 21 of the injured were taken \nto a hospital, where they were listed in good condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \nplane, a chartered Boeing 737-800 arriving from Naval Station Guantanamo\n Bay in Cuba with 136 passengers and seven crew members, crashed into \nthe St. Johns river at the end of the runway at Naval Air Station \nJacksonville at about 9:40 p.m. local time, a spokesman for the Florida \nair base said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sheriff\u2019s tweet was accompanied by two \nphotographs showing the plane, bearing the logo of Miami Air \nInternational, resting in shallow water and fully intact.\u201cWe came down, \nthe plane literally hit the ground and bounced. It was clear the pilot \ndid not have total control of the plane. It bounced again,\u201d she said, \nadding that the experience was \u201cterrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bormann said she hit\n her head on a plastic tray on the seat in front of her as the plane \nveered sideways and off the runway. \u201cWe were in the water, we couldn\u2019t \ntell where we were, whether it was a river or an ocean.\u201dThe military \nbase is situated on the western bank of the St. Johns River about 8 \nmiles south of central Jacksonville, in the northeastern corner of \nFlorida about 350 miles north of Miami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bormann described \nemerging from the plane onto the wing as oxygen masks deployed and \nsmelling the jet fuel that she said was apparently leaking into the \nwater.Bormann, from Chicago, said that most of the passengers were \nconnected to the military and helped each other out of their seats and \nonto a wing, where they were assisted after some time into a raft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miami\n Air International is a charter airline operating a fleet of the Boeing \n737-800, different from the 737 MAX 8 aircraft that has been grounded \nfollowing two fatal crashes involving that plane. Representatives for \nthe airline could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters on \nFriday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It flies every Tuesday and Friday from the Naval \nStation Norfolk in Virginia to the Jacksonville air station and on to \nCuba. It then flies back to Virginia with a stop again at Jacksonville, \nhe said.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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