American Airlines
Flight 311 Overshoots Runway in Jamaica, Dozens Injured

The Boeing 737-800, filled to capacity with 148 passengers and a crew of six, came down in heavy rain and overshot the runway at Norman Manley International Airport. After its landing gear collapsed and the plane started to break up, it finally slid to a stop less than 10 feet from the Caribbean Sea, The Associated Press reported.

“A passenger told me that the oxygen masks deployed when they heard the nose bang and they could see the fuselage breaking up,” said Milton Walker of Radio Jamaica, who rushed to the scene. “And then the chute deployed and persons managed to escape.”

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