Boeing 737 with passengers skids off runway into Florida river
A Boeing 737 plane arriving from the Guantanamo Bay military station in Cuba with 143 people aboard went off the runway and into the St. Johns River in Florida on Friday night, authorities said.
The plane was in shallow water and not submerged in the river in Jacksonville, the Sheriff’s Office said. There were no fatalities.
Cheryl Bormann, a civil defense attorney said passengers were confused and afraid as the Boeing 737 aircraft slid off the runway at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station.
“The plane … literally hit the ground and then it bounced,” Bormann told CNN. “It was clear that the pilot did not have complete control of the plane because it bounced some more, it swerved and tilted left and right,” she said. “The pilot was trying to control it but couldn’t, and then all of a sudden it smashed into something.”
All 136 passengers and seven crew members on board have been accounted for, the Naval Air Station Jacksonville said. Twenty-one people were transported to hospitals in good condition, according to Officer Tom Francis of Jacksonville Fire Rescue.
The safe landing was a miracle, said Capt. Michael Connor, a commanding officer at the station.
“We could be talking about a different story this evening. So there’s a lot to say about the professionalism of the folks that helped the passengers off the airplane,” he said at a news conference early Saturday. “Some of them were coming back to see their families, some of them were continuing on travel to their homes outside of Florida.”
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