Georgetown: A packed Caribbean Airlines jet carrying 163 people crashed and broke in two on Saturday as it landed in Guyana at night, injuring dozens of passengers but killing no one. The Boeing 737-800 overshot the runway and burst through a perimeter fence after arriving at Georgetown's Cheddi Jagan airport just past midnight from New York. The front of the plane snapped off and it stopped meters from a jungle ravine. No fire appears to have broken out on the jet. “It's an absolute miracle what happened here in Georgetown”, said Caribbean Airlines chairman George Nicholas, who visited the crash site. Passengers screamed when the plane lost control and many fled down emergency inflatable slides when it finally came to a stop, a local newspaper reported. “It was terror”, a woman passenger whose husband opened the exit door told the newspaper Kaieteur News. “I was praying to Jesus.” Read Full : Boeing jet crashes, snaps into two in Guyana - Indian Express
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Boeing jet crashes, snaps into two in Guyana
Georgetown: A packed Caribbean Airlines jet carrying 163 people crashed and broke in two on Saturday as it landed in Guyana at night, injuring dozens of passengers but killing no one. The Boeing 737-800 overshot the runway and burst through a perimeter fence after arriving at Georgetown's Cheddi Jagan airport just past midnight from New York. The front of the plane snapped off and it stopped meters from a jungle ravine. No fire appears to have broken out on the jet. “It's an absolute miracle what happened here in Georgetown”, said Caribbean Airlines chairman George Nicholas, who visited the crash site. Passengers screamed when the plane lost control and many fled down emergency inflatable slides when it finally came to a stop, a local newspaper reported. “It was terror”, a woman passenger whose husband opened the exit door told the newspaper Kaieteur News. “I was praying to Jesus.” Read Full : Boeing jet crashes, snaps into two in Guyana - Indian Express