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Posted: 10:21 AM Dec 23, 2009
American Airlines: 2 engines broke off in Jamaica landing
FORT WORTH, Texas - Both engines of an American Airlines
jet tore off as the plane overshot a runway while landing during a
rainstorm in Jamaica.
Reporter: Associated Press |
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FORT WORTH, Texas - Both engines of an American Airlines jet tore off as the plane overshot a runway while landing during a rainstorm in Jamaica.
Fort Worth-based American spokesman Tim Smith said Wednesday that "both engines were removed or taken off the wing as it happened," as designed to do for safety reasons.
Smith says two of the 148 passengers on Flight 331 from Miami were admitted to a hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries from Tuesday night's accident in Kingston. Smith says the crew of six also was transported to hospitals, as a precaution.
Smith says the landing gear of the Boeing 737-800 was damaged and the fuselage has two cracks.
American, the nation's second-largest carrier, will work with the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Aviation Administration and Jamaican authorities to determine the cause of the accident.
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