An Air Niugini plane crashed into the sea after undershooting the runway at the Chuuk airport in Micronesia on Friday. Reports are that all 47 passengers and crew were rescued on a small flotilla of local boats.
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"It was supposed to land but instead of landing it was 150 yards short and she went down," Jimmy Emilio, general manager of Chuuk Airport at Weno in Micronesia, told Reuters.
The injured were taken to a medical facility for treatment and eight were hospitalized, four in serious condition, with bone fractures and other serious injuries, Reuters reported.
"We don't really know what happened ... people were rescued by boats - 36 passengers and 11 crew were all rescued, only the plane is sinking right now," Emilio said.
An investigation is to be launched to determine what the cause of the accident was. In a statement, the airline said that "the weather was very poor with heavy rain and reduced visibility at the time of the incident."