Can anyone find out if there was a crash landing with the AE today or yesterday?

I heard this today from someone who heard it on NBC but I scoured the internet to no avail.

Ann

Found it..no one died..Mayaguez to SJU...Scary but thankfully no one died.


http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-puerto-rico-crash-landing,0,4030301.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

quick search shows this:

VIVOS DE MILAGRO
a total of 26 people was wounded when the airplane from American Eagle in which they traveled accidentó yesterday during the landing in the international airport Luis Muñoz Marín.

machine translated from: http://www.vocero.com/

Ann's link didn't work for me ( :–) ); perhaps these will work here:

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-2/1084170546156930.xml

http://www.alwayson-network.com/news/story.php?id=814377103&feed=2&row=1

Saw it on the news this am, glad no one was critically injured, and my only thought is I wondered what hospital they took them to...If you need to go to the hospital in PR, go to Auxilio Muto, or Ashbery Pres...DON'T go to UPR Carolina (even if they tell you it is the closest to the airport)....

Here is a copy of the article in Newsday (Long Island, NY paper). It is probably a couple of days old.....It is an Associated Press release. Carole

Crash Landing in Puerto Rico Injures 13


By RICARDO ZUNIGA
Associated Press Writer

May 9, 2004, 11:58 PM EDT


SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A twin-engine plane blew a tire on landing and skidded off the runway at San Juan's main airport Sunday, injuring at least 13 people, authorities said.

One wing on the Super ATR turboprop, which was carrying 22 passengers and four crew members, struck the runway after the blowout, Port Authority executive director Miguel Soto Lacourt said.

The aircraft, operated by American Airlines subsidiary American Eagle, stopped on its left side in a wooded area and its wing was heavily damaged. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the fuselage was intact.

The 13 injured, including the pilot and co-pilot, were taken to local hospitals and listed in stable condition, he said. Some others aboard had cuts and bruises and ere treated at the scene.

The incident occurred at 2:50 p.m. as Flight 5401 was arriving at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport from the Puerto Rican city of Mayaguez.

"It was a disastrous experience but we are alive," flight attendant Luis Ramirez told Univision television.

The FFA said it was investigating the cause of what it called a hard landing. Soto said the pilot didn't tell the control tower of any problems prior to landing.

One of the airport's two runways was shut down but flights were arriving and taking off on the other runway.

The Super ATR, which was manufactured in 1995, has a capacity for 64 passengers. The type of aircraft has never had any significant problems in the region, said Gary Ellmer, president of American Eagle in the Caribbean.