BBC: Plane from New York crashes at Guyana airport (no deaths)

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

30 July 2011 Last updated at 13:34 GMT

Plane from New York crashes at Guyana airport

A plane has crashed and broken in two on landing at Guyana's main airport in the capital, Georgetown, causing injuries but no deaths.

The Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737-800 flight BW-523 from New York had 163 people aboard.

The plane apparently overshot the runway at Cheddi Jagan International Airport during wet weather.

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