A Boeing 737 crashes into a river in Jacksonville, Florida.

All the pets stored in the hold of a Boeing 737 would have died after the crash of the plane chartered by the army on a runway in Jacksonville, Florida. Friday night, before slipping into a river, according to a spokesman for the US Navy in Jacksonville. The 143 people aboard the plane survived and did not sustain any life – threatening injuries.

The plane, which departed from Guantanamo Bay and operated by the charter company Miami Air International, crashed at 21:40. after going through thunderstorms, according to CNN. It is not known if weather has anything to do with the hard landing. The passengers told reporters that after a hard landing on the runway, the plane had bounced, had made a blunder, and then crashed into the water in the middle of it. a storm.

The passengers on board were a group of active duty members, family members and government employees. Many returned home to see their families.

The passengers took the wings of the plane to wait to be rescued, and the firefighters helped to safely transport them with rafts. Twenty-one people on board were sent to the hospital for minor injuries.

A commander at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville said at a press conference that the landing and survival of all passengers and the crew constituted a "miracle".

"We could talk about a different story tonight," he said.

The jet did not sink completely into the water because it stopped in a shallow part of the river, but the bottom of it, including the cargo hold where the pets were kept, was submerged. It is not known yet how many animals were on the flight, but there were at least four.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the forced landing. As a result, the aircraft was not hit on the site and passengers have not yet been able to retrieve their luggage.

The authorities have not yet explained what caused the plane to end up in the river.