AFP: Passengers survive horror crash landing in Jamaica

An American Airlines jet overshot the runway at a Jamaican airport and ended up in a mangled mess on a beach, but all 154 passengers and crew survived with 91 mainly minor injuries, officials said.

Flight AA 331 from Miami arrived in heavy rain at Kingston airport late Tuesday.

“The aircraft totally overshot the runway and ended up over the road in the sand,” said Paul Hall, senior vice president of operations at Norman Manley International Airport.

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