American Airlines Plane Misses Runway in Jamaica

World | December 23, 2009, Wednesday // 08:50|  views

Amercian Airlines Flight 331 was carrying 145 passengers plus seven crew members and was going from Miami to Kingston. Photo by EPA/BGNES

No one was seriously injured Tuesday evening when an American Airlines plane overshot a runway near Kingston, Jamaica, and crashed into a fence, officials said, as cited by CNN.

Flight 331 was carrying 145 passengers plus seven crew members and was going from Miami to Kingston, said Omar Lawrence, operations coordinator at Norman Manley International Airport. The incident took place around 10:20 p.m. ET.

An American Airlines spokesman, Charlie Wilson, said bad weather contributed to the incident.

"At this point they have no reports of injuries or fatalities," Wilson said.

A Radio Jamaica reporter, Kirk Abraham, said it had been raining in the area and the plane ran into a fence after overshooting the runway.

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