This picture offered by Diane Dircks exhibits a U.S. Navy aircraft that overshot a Marine base on Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. An official says all 9 individuals aboard the aircraft have escaped harm.
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This picture offered by Diane Dircks exhibits a U.S. Navy aircraft that overshot a Marine base on Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. An official says all 9 individuals aboard the aircraft have escaped harm.
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HONOLULU — A U.S. Navy aircraft overshot a runway and went right into a bay in Hawaii on Monday, and when the Honolulu Emergency Medical Companies Division bought to the scene, navy officers instructed the emergency employees that each one 9 individuals aboard made it safely to shore with no accidents, spokesperson Shayne Enright stated.
Coast Guard spokesperson Petty Officer Ryan Fisher stated the Coast Guard responded however that rescue operations have been rapidly referred to as off.
”It feels like all events concerned have been rescued,” he stated.
The P-8A plane overshot the runway at a Marine base on Kaneohe Bay, stated U.S. Marine Corps spokesperson Gunnery Sgt. Orlando Perez. He didn’t have additional info.
A photograph taken by a witness confirmed the aircraft floating simply offshore, a scene paying homage to the 2009 ”Miracle on the Hudson” when a industrial plane piloted by Chesley ”Sully” Sullenberger made an emergency touchdown on the New York river. All 155 individuals aboard survived.
The P-8A and the Airbus A320 that Sullenberger piloted are roughly the identical measurement.
Diane Dircks, 61, and her household had simply returned to the dock after the wet climate reduce their pontoon boat journey quick when her daughter seen the aircraft within the water.
”We went working over to the top of the dock, and I took some photos,” she stated.
They then heard sirens coming from in all places.
Dircks, who’s visiting from Illinois, stated her daughter retains a pair of binoculars on her for birdwatching, so she was in a position to see the aircraft and the rescue boats arriving.
”It was unbelievable,” she stated.
It was cloudy and wet throughout the afternoon across the time of the crash. Visibility was about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers), stated Thomas Vaughan, a Nationwide Climate Service meteorologist in Honolulu.
The P-8A is usually used to hunt for submarines and reconnaissance and intelligence gathering. It’s manufactured by Boeing and shares many elements with the 737 industrial jet.
The aircraft belongs to the Skinny Dragons of Patrol Squadron 4 stationed at Whidbey Island in Washington state. Patrol squadrons have been as soon as based mostly at Kaneohe Bay, however now they deploy to Hawaii on a rotational foundation.
Marine Corps Base Hawaii is about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Honolulu on Oahu. The bottom homes about 9,300 navy personnel and 5,100 members of the family and is one among a number of key navy installations on Oahu.
The bottom sits on Kaneohe Bay, which can be house to coral reefs, a breeding floor for hammerhead sharks and a College of Hawaii marine biology analysis institute.