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– A Boeing 737 slipped from a landing strip into a river in the United States
– The plane was carrying 136 pbadengers and 7 crew members
– No casualties were recorded, but approximately 21 pbadengers were slightly injured.
Less than two months after the fatal crash of Boeing 737 MAX 8 of the airline Ethopian, a Boeing 737-800 chartered would have slipped on a runway in a shallow river in the United States.
According to police, the plane was arriving from the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba with 136 pbadengers and seven crew members, when it crashed into the St Johns River at the end of the runway at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, Friday night, May 3rd.
No deaths were recorded but about 21 of the pbadengers on board suffered minor injuries when the plane slipped off the runway.
The Boise 737 carrying 143 people fell into the shallow river in Florida. Photo credit: Jacksonvill Sherrif office
The river was apparently shallow and, therefore, the aircraft was not submerged in the water, which is why the pbadengers came out alive.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office spoke of the accident Friday night and badured the public that all injured pbadengers had been taken to a hospital.
A pbadenger on board the plane, Cheryl Bormann, who spoke to CNN and described the experience as terrifying, said that the plane had landed abruptly before leaving the runway.
Bormann said: "We went down, the plane literally hit the ground and bounced in. It was clear that the pilot did not have total control of the plane. He bounced again.
"We were in the water, we could not tell where we were, whether it was a river or an ocean."
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Note that the Boeing 737-800 is different from the Boeing 737 MAX 8 which was banned from flying after two fatal collisions.
Meanwhile, YEN.com.gh Previously, a preliminary investigation report conducted by the Ethiopian flight authority on the crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 justified the pilot of the aircraft and other members of the aircraft. crew on board.
The flight between Ethiopian Airlines between Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and Nairobi, Kenya's capital, crashed on Sunday morning, March 10, leaving 149 dead and eight crew members on board.
Source: Yen.com.gh
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