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<a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEOREG000022" title="Caribbean Islands" href="/topic/intl/caribbean-islands-PLGEOREG000022.topic">Caribbean</a> Airlines jet is seen broken at <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEHST001009" title="Cheddi Jagan" href="/topic/arts-culture/cheddi-jagan-PEHST001009.topic">Cheddi Jagan</a> International airport outside <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO100100802013200" title="Georgetown" href="/topic/us/new-york/new-york-city/brooklyn-%28new-york-city%29/georgetown-PLGEO100100802013200.topic">Georgetown</a>. A packed Caribbean Airlines jet carrying 163 people crashed and broke in two Saturday as it landed in Guyana at night, injuring several passengers but killing no one. The <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="ORCRP017215" title="Boeing Co." href="/topic/economy-business-finance/manufacturing-engineering/aerospace-manufacturing/boeing-co.-ORCRP017215.topic">Boeing</a> 737-800 overshot the runway and burst through a perimeter fence after arriving at Georgetown's Cheddi Jagan airport just past midnight from New York. The front of the plane snapped off and it stopped meters from a deep jungle ravine.

( REUTERS photo / July 30, 2011 )

Caribbean Airlines jet is seen broken at Cheddi Jagan International airport outside Georgetown. A packed Caribbean Airlines jet carrying 163 people crashed and broke in two Saturday as it landed in Guyana at night, injuring several passengers but killing no one. The Boeing 737-800 overshot the runway and burst through a perimeter fence after arriving at Georgetown's Cheddi Jagan airport just past midnight from New York. The front of the plane snapped off and it stopped meters from a deep jungle ravine.

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