A charter plane carrying 143 people and traveling from Cuba to north Florida ended up in a river at the end of a runway, but no critical injuries or deaths were reported
Updated May 4, 2019 3:39 a.m. ET
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—A charter plane carrying 143 people and traveling from Cuba to north Florida ended up in a river at the end of a runway Friday night, though no critical injuries or deaths were reported, officials said. A Boeing 737 arriving at Naval Air Station Jacksonville from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with 136 passengers and seven aircrew slid off the runway into the St. Johns River, a NAS Jacksonville news release said.
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