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Plane With 143 Aboard Crashes Into River, No Deaths

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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.

 

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office posted on Twitter that a marine unit responded to assist.

 

The plane was in shallow water and not submerged. Everyone on the plane was alive and accounted for, the agency posted, with 21 adults transported to local hospitals in good condition.

 

A photo posted by deputies shows a Miami Air International logo on the plane. The company didn’t immediately respond to messages from.

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