164 Escape Death in Caribbean Airline Crash

A jet carrying 163 people broke in half as it crash-landed in the South American country of Guyana on July 30th. Incredibly, nobody was killed and only a few passengers were injured after the Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737-800 from New York overshot the runway at Georgetown’s Cheddi Jagan airport in wet weather...

 

It slid through a chain-link fence and barely missed a 200-foot ravine. Had it fallen into the ravine it would have almost certainly killed crew and passengers. The crash happened just after midnight local time as it arrived from the Caribbean island of Trinidad, where it had made a stop before continuing its flight to Georgetown.

Caribbean Airlines said it did not know the cause of the accident, which happened during good visibility and light rain. Investigators from the U.S. and Guyana were sent to retrieve the black box. - NY Times