Passenger jet skids off runway into creek
NZPA-AP New York A Scandinavian Airlines System jet, carrying 177 people, skidded off a Kennedy Airport runway into a three-metre-deep creek while landing in drizzle and fog yesterday. Officials said that nine people had suffered minor injuries. Some passengers had been forced to jump from a door of the DCIO and swim to safety, said Tom Young, spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport. Others had escaped by jumping down chutes or walking on a wing and climbing down a ladder. Mr Young said that the plane had ended up submerged to its two wing engines in about three metres of water after the accident at 4.15 p.m. local time (10.15 a.m. NX time) yesterday. The plane was carrying 163 passengers and a crew of 14 on a flight from Stockholm, Sweden, via Oslo, Norway.
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