The plane carrying 143 people slammed into shallow water in Jacksonville after a hard landing that saw the plane bounce and swerve down the runway
The plane carrying 143 people including crew from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba slammed into shallow water next to a naval air station in Jacksonville after a hard landing that saw the plane bounce and swerve down the runway, passengers said."As we went down ... the plane bounced and screeched and bounced more and lifted to the right and then it lifted to the left," Cheryl Bormann, a defence attorney who was on board the flight, told CNN.
"We could be talking about a different story this evening, so I think there's a lot to say about, you know, the professionalism of the folks that helped the passengers off the airplane ... it very well could be worse," he said. The pets had "not been retrieved yet due to safety issues with the aircraft", NAS Jacksonville said in an update on Facebook today.
"We couldn't tell where we were, a river or an ocean. There was rain coming down. There was lightning and thunder. We stood on that wing for a significant period of time," she told CNN.Jacksonville mayor Lenny Curry tweeted that the White House had called to offer assistance as the situation was developing.Teams were working to control jet fuel spilling into the St Johns River, he added.
Boeing said it was aware of the incident and providing technical assistance to the agency as it conducts its probe.
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