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Plane ditches into Pacific lagoon

Air Niugini Plane Overshoots Runway in Micronesia to Land on Water Lagoon (Courtesy)

Passengers were forced to swim for their lives Friday when an airliner ditched into a lagoon after missing the runway on a remote Pacific island and immediately began sinking.

The Air Niugini Boeing 737 was attempting to land at Weno airport in Micronesia but ended up half submerged in Chuuk lagoon after the accident on Friday morning.

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