Posted on 09/29/2018 5:10:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Air Niugini Boeing 737-800 aircraft carrying 47 people — 35 passengers and 12 crew members — plunged into the water after it “landed short of the runway,” at the international airport on Weno, the main island of Chuuk state in Micronesia on Friday, according to a statement from Air Niugini, the national carrier of Papua New Guinea.
The airplane proceeded normally until final approach when the weather conditions suddenly deteriorated and it began raining hard, according to the independent website JACDEC, which monitors airline safety and crash data. Within minutes, local fishermen were on the scene in small motor boats to rescue people. Everyone on board survived, Air Niugini said.
“Despite water ingress, the aircraft managed to stay afloat for some time allowing passenger evacuation via the over wing exits and the forward passenger door. The Boeing later submerged below the window line.”
Bill Jaynes, managing editor of a Micronesia-based newspaper, was on the plane when it hit the water.
“It’s just surreal. I thought we landed hard until I looked over and saw a hole in the side of the plane and water was coming in, and I thought, well, this is not, like, the way it’s supposed to happen,”
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Global warming. This kind of thing will happen with increasing frequency as sea levels rise. All coastal airports will have to close. Al Gore will be along later today to confirm.
If I’m not mistaken the Chuuk Islands were known as Truk Atol during WW2.
Ya know, you just might be right. Didn't that crash in San Francisco happen because the pilot clipped the seawall?
AGW must have made that pilot come up short too, in his landing.
Well, attempted, landing.
Thanks for supplying the real name so we can know where this happened.
Not many people on that flight
BE ADVISED !! Coming just a few inches short on the Pohnpei runway will put you 100’ down in the middle of the shipping channel. They keep making the runway longer but the island somehow stays the same size.
It has to have something to do with their tiny knees.
Correct-o-mundo InaBunker.
And if Google maps is anywhere near close that is a 6500 foot runway. The airport is on the NW side of Weno Island. The one and only runway looks like it was added to the island and the over run areas are the ocean!!!
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Wikipedia says 6006’, 1831m
I was suppose to be only a three hour tour.
I like this guy.
He sounds like a Southern Californian.
I think it is a mind set. I was behind a very small burm. A bad guy was shooting at everything. If it moved, the bad guy shot a 5-10 round burst. I was reloading, thinking of how many rounds I had left, how long was the day, when was the last time I cleaned my rifle, etc... . The guy next to me, gave me a very reflective look and said, "I thought we were the only ones that were supposed to waste ammo."
Oh yeah. I was combat comedy at its finest. I laughed my butt off. It was a “Willey and Joe moment.”
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