Bizarre Caribbean Airlines Crash

International Buisiness Times
Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:35 UTC

A Caribbean Airlines jet from New York overshot the runway after it arrived in Georgetown, Guyana, and broke apart injuring several dozens of people. None of the 163 passengers on board were killed, officials told The New York Times.

The passengers were aboard a Boeing 737-800 and began applauding the pilot's landing in Guyana just after midnight when things went wrong, accoridng to The Times.

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Caribbean Airlines jet is seen broken at Cheddi Jagan International airport outside Georgetown July 30, 2011. The packed Caribbean Airlines jet carrying 163 people crashed and broke in two Saturday as it landed in Guyana at night, injuring several passengers but killing no one. The Boeing 737-800 overshot the runway and burst through a perimeter fence after arriving at Georgetown's Cheddi Jagan airport just past midnight from New York. The front of the plane snapped off and it stopped meters from a deep jungle ravine.

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