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Plane Slides off Runway into Florida River; No Fatalities

by Reuters

   A Boeing 737 commercial jet with 136 people on board slid into the St.
   John's River near Jacksonville, Fla., after landing Friday, a spokesman
   for Naval Air Station Jacksonville said.

   The mayor of Jacksonville said on Twitter that everyone on board the
   flight was "alive and accounted for" but that crews were working to
   control jet fuel on the water.

   "The plane was not submerged. Every person is alive and accounted for,"
   the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said on Twitter.

   The Miami International Air flight was a military charter from the U.S.
   base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

   No further details were immediately available.