Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashes on touchdown in Guyana
The broken fuselage of a Caribbean Airlines’ Boeing 737-800 is seen after it crashed at the end of the runway at Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Timehri, Guyana, Saturday. The Caribbean Airlines flight 523 from New York touched down on the rainy runway, slid through a chain-link fence and broke apart just short of a ravine. (Jules Gibson / Associated Press)
The broken fuselage of a Caribbean Airlines’ plane is seen after it crashed Saturday. (Jules Gibson / Associated Press)
Passengers aboard Flight 523 said they had begun to applaud the pilot’s landing in the South American country when suddenly things went wrong. (Jules Gibson / Associated Press)
The broken fuselage of a Caribbean Airlines’ flight sits in a field. Several dozen people received medical attention after the crash. (Jules Gibson / Associated Press)