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Saturday 04 May 2019 12:01 pm  |  Updated:  Wednesday 05 June 2019 9:14 am

Boeing 737 skids off Florida runway and lands in river

At least 20 passengers on board a Boeing 737 have been taken to hospital after the passenger plane skid off a runway in Florida and landed in a river. 

None of the 143 people on board were seriously hurt as the plane tried to land in thunderstorm conditions.

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The chartered flight was flying from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to a military base in city of Jacksonville. 

Those taken to hospital are being treated for minor injuries as heavy rain caused difficulty as the plane tried to land before it ended up in the St John River. 

A passenger on board the flight, Cheryl Bormann, told CNN of the "terrifying" incident that occurred late on Friday night. 

"The plane literally hit the ground and bounced – it was clear the pilot did not have total control of the plane, it bounced again," she said.

"We were in the water. We couldn't tell where we were, whether it was a river or an ocean."

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It comes just weeks after Boeing’s 737 Max jets were grounded across the globe, costing the company more than $1bn.

The planes were grounded after two of its flights crashed, killing 346 people, while investigations are being carried out. 

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