Reports are that on Tuesday 7th February 2017 shortly after 5:00pm, officers were alerted that a Western Air twin engine aircraft with 33 passengers had attempted to land at the Grand Bahama International Airport when the aircraft skidded of the runway and landed some two hundred feet in bushes. EMS personnel were called to the scene and rendered assistance to several passengers who were taken to the Rand Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries and were discharged.

Investigation into this matter is continuing.

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