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Spain jet overshoots runway, stops metres from sea

Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:01am EDT

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MADRID, Oct 31 (Reuters) - A Spanish jet overshot the runway and stopped metres from the sea as it landed in the Canary Islands on Friday but no one was hurt, Spanish airports operator AENA said.

Pictures showed the Air Europa plane, which had flown from Glasgow with 74 passengers on board, with its nose close to the airport's perimeter fence just metres from the Atlantic Ocean.

The AENA spokeswoman said it was not known why the Boeing 737 came to a stop so late as it landed at Lanzarote, one of Spain's Canary Islands, at 0730 GMT.

The airport was closed for three hours after the incident.

In August a Spanair (SAS.ST) jet destined for Gran Canaria in the same archipelago crashed on takeoff at Madrid's Barajas airport, killing 154 people. (Reporting by Emma Pinedo; writing by Ben Harding; editing by Catherine Bosley)



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