Loss of Braking Cited in 2019 Florida Plane Incident

Loss of Braking Cited in 2019 Florida Plane Incident
A charter plane carrying 143 people and traveling from Cuba to north Florida sits in a river at the end of a runway in Jacksonville, Fla., on May 4, 2019. Gary McCullough/File/AP Photo
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Investigators say a rain-soaked runway and the pilots’ failure to anticipate the poor conditions caused a plane chartered by the Pentagon to slide into a Florida river two years ago.

The National Transportation Safety Board said pilots of the Miami Air International plane landed too fast and waited too long to deploy speed-reducing panels as the Boeing 737 touched down at Jacksonville Naval Air Station on May 3, 2019.