This photograph offered by Diane Dircks reveals a U.S. Navy airplane that overshot a Marine base on Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. An official says all 9 individuals aboard the airplane have escaped damage.

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This photograph offered by Diane Dircks reveals a U.S. Navy airplane that overshot a Marine base on Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. An official says all 9 individuals aboard the airplane have escaped damage.

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HONOLULU — A U.S. Navy airplane overshot a runway and went right into a bay in Hawaii on Monday, and when the Honolulu Emergency Medical Services Department received to the scene, army officers informed the emergency employees that every 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 shortly known as off.
“It sounds like all parties involved were 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 airplane 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 dimension.

Diane Dircks, 61, and her household had simply returned to the dock after the wet climate minimize their pontoon boat journey brief when her daughter observed the airplane within the water.

“We went running over to the end of the dock, and I took some pictures,” 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 capable of see the airplane and the rescue boats arriving.

“It was unbelievable,” she stated.

It was cloudy and wet through the afternoon across the time of the crash. Visibility was about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers), stated Thomas Vaughan, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Honolulu.

The P-8A is usually used to hunt for submarines and reconnaissance and intelligence gathering. It is manufactured by Boeing and shares many components with the 737 industrial jet.

The airplane belongs to the Skinny Dragons of Patrol Squadron Four 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 base homes about 9,300 army personnel and 5,100 members of the family and is considered one of a number of key army installations on Oahu.

The base sits on Kaneohe Bay, which can be dwelling to coral reefs, a breeding floor for hammerhead sharks and a University of Hawaii marine biology analysis institute.