A Boeing 737 charter jet arriving at the Jacksonville, Florida, naval air station from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, slid off the runway into the St Johns river on Friday night, injuring at least 21 people, the authorities said.
All the 136 passengers and seven crew members had been rescued by early Saturday morning, a navy spokeswoman said. None of the injuries were life-threatening, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.
“I think it is a miracle,” Captain Michael P. Connor, the commanding officer at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, said at a news conference early on Saturday. “We could be talking about a different story.”
