GEORGETOWN (Reuters) – A packed Caribbean Airlines passenger jet skidded off a runway as it landed in Guyana at night on Saturday, then broke in two at the edge of a ravine. There were no casualties.
The Boeing 737-800 overshot the runway and burst through a perimeter fence after arriving at Georgetown’s Cheddi Jagan airport just past midnight from New York. The front of the plane snapped off and it stopped meters from a jungle gorge.
No fire appears to have broken out and only three people were hospitalized, one for a broken leg.
“It’s an absolute miracle what happened here in Georgetown,” said Caribbean Airlines chairman George Nicholas, who visited the crash site in the South American nation.
Passengers screamed when the plane lost control soon after touching down and many fled down emergency inflatable slides when it finally came to a stop.
“Everything starting caving in and the girl next to me just
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