A Boeing jetliner with 143 people aboard from the US outpost at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, landing slid off a runway into a shallow river in Jacksonville, Florida in the US.
The plane, according to the police has 136 passengers and seven crew members, when it crashed into the St Johns river at the end of the runway at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, late night on Friday, May 3, while attempting to land during a thunderstorm.
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The river was reportedly shallow and hence, the plane was not submerged in the water which was why the passengers came out alive.
There were no reports of fatalities or critical injuries. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said on Twitter that all 21 of the injured were taken to a hospital, where they were listed in good condition.
“The plane was not submerged. Every person is alive and accounted for,” the sheriff’s office said on Twitter.
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A spokesman from the Naval Air Station Jacksonville disclosed that the accident happened on Friday at exactly 9:40 pm.
The station told CNN affiliate WJXT that the plane appears to have skidded off the airport runway while trying to land and ended up in the river.
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