An investigation is underway into how a Boeing 737-800 of Miami Air International carrying 143 people came to skid off the runway at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida into the St. Johns River on Friday evening.
The jet had was transporting 136 passengers and 7 crew and had just arrived from the US Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba at 2140 local time. According to local weather sources, there were thunderstorms in the area at the time the aircraft was attempting to land.
The sheriff's office in Jacksonville confirmed that every person on the aircraft was accounted for and alive. Some 21 people were taken to a local hospital to be treated although their condition is said to be 'good'.
