CUBA: 21 people were hurt when a Boeing jetliner with 143 people aboard from the U.S. outpost at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, slid off a runway into a shallow river in Jacksonville, Florida. A Boeing was attempting to land at a military base there during a thunderstorm.
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, a chartered Boeing 737-800 traveling from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba with 136 passengers and seven crew members, crashed into the St. Johns river at the end of the runway at Naval Air Station Jacksonville. “The plane was not submerged. Every person is alive and accounted for,” the sheriff’s office said on Twitter.
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