The Nation - News from Oct. 27, 1986
A Piedmont Airlines jetliner overshot a rain-slick runway in Charlotte, N.C., while landing and smashed through a fence, shearing off part of its nose and slightly injuring 34 people, officials said. Flight 467, carrying 113 passengers and five crew members from Newark, N.J., skidded about 300 feet off the runway at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, a Piedmont spokeswoman said. The Boeing 737 was making a scheduled stop in Charlotte and was to continue on to Myrtle Beach, S.C. The pilot reportedly said the plane’s brakes failed, but investigators said the cause of the accident had not been determined.
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