An American Airlines plane overshot a runway Tuesday evening near Kingston, Jamaica, airport officials said.
Flight 331 was carrying 145 passengers plus 7 crew members and was going from Miami to Kingston, said Omar Lawrence, operations coordinator at Norman Manley International Airport.
There were no initial reports of casualties in the incident that happened at 10:22 p.m. All people on the plane had exited, Lawrence said.
(CNN) -- No one was seriously injured Tuesday evening when an American Airlines plane overshot a runway near Kingston, Jamaica, and crashed into a fence, officials said.
Flight 331 was carrying 145 passengers plus seven crew members and was going from Miami to Kingston, said Omar Lawrence, operations coordinator at Norman Manley International Airport. The incident took place around 10:20 p.m. ET.
An American Airlines spokesman, Charlie Wilson, said bad weather contributed to the incident.
"At this point they have no reports of injuries or fatalities," Wilson said.
A Radio Jamaica reporter, Kirk Abraham, said it had been raining in the area and the plane ran into a fence after overshooting the runway.
http://avherald.com/h?article=424a11b1&opt=0The passengers were evacuated. 44 passengers were taken to local hospitals, 4 of them received serious injuries. The airplane received substantial damage.
American Airlines confirmed the overrun and reported, that no critical injuries occured. The airplane received substantial damages, the fuselage cracked, the right hand engine was torn off and the main gear collapsed.
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The airplane came to a stand still about 3 meters short of the Caribbean Sea.
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