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Local Boats Rescue Everyone Aboard 737 After It Crashes Into Micronesian Lagoon
Source: NPR
Thanks in part to a flotilla of local boats, all 47 people aboard a Boeing 737 are safe after a crash-landing in a lagoon at the Pacific island of Chuuk.
The Air Niugini plane was on approach to the airport at the island, part of the Federated States of Micronesia, when it apparently fell short of the runway.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/09/28/652452700/local-boats-rescue-everyone-aboard-737-after-it-crashes-into-micronesian-lagoon
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Local Boats Rescue Everyone Aboard 737 After It Crashes Into Micronesian Lagoon (Original Post)
Crabby Appleton
Sep 2018
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(11,841 posts)1. WOW!! Thats amazing & wonderful news to start my day. Bless all who raced in to help. nt
Stuart G
(38,428 posts)2. A crash landing...all safe...great news.. k and r
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)3. Good stuff!!
Sad that we had to lose another 737 though...
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)4. Whoa, look at the pictures! Shades of "Sully"...