American Airlines Flight 331 from Miami overshot a runway while landing during a heavy rainstorm in Kingston on Tuesday night, injuring more than 40 of the 154 people on board. The nose of the jet was less than 10 feet (3 meters) from the water.
The plane’s fuselage was cracked, its right engine broke off from the impact and the left main landing gear collapsed, said Tim Smith, an American Airlines spokesman at the company’s headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. Most of the injuries were cuts and bruises and none were life threatening.
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