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Boeing jet crash-lands at Guyana airport, six injured: minister

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Nov 9, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – A Boeing jetliner carrying 126
people crash-landed at the airport in Guyana’s capital Georgetown on Friday,
injuring six people, the transport minister said.

The Fly Jamaica Airways plane was bound for Toronto when it suffered a
hydraulic problem shortly after takeoff and returned to the airport, crashing
and skidding off the runway, Transportation Minister David Patterson said.

BSS/AFP/SSS/1740 hrs