A passenger aircraft has come down in a lagoon off Chuuk International Airport in Micronesia after it overshot the runway, say airport officials.
Images circulating online showed the Air Niugini plane, from Papua New Guinea, sitting in shallow water just off the coast.
None of the 35 passengers and 12 crew onboard flight ANG73 suffered serious injuries.
The cause of the crash is unclear, but investigations are due to begin soon.
The plane crashed in the lagoon, about 160 yards away from the runway,” Chuuk airport manager Jimmy Emilio told news agency.
“Right now we don’t really know what happened. Investigations will start earliest tomorrow, but [for now], operations are starting again as usual in the airport.”
Mr. Emilio said all those onboard the Boeing 737-800 aircraft were taken to hospital for checks, saying he believed some suffered from “minor injuries.”
The aircraft was flying from the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia to Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, stopping at Micronesia’s Weno island on the way.
Canada MPs vote to strip Aung San Suu Kyi of honorary citizenship
Canadian MPs have voted unanimously to revoke the honorary citizenship of Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
Passing the motion was a response to her failure to stop the persecution of the Rohingya minority in her country.
Ms. Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her efforts to bring democracy to Myanmar – also known as Burma – which was then under military rule.
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A UN report last month said Myanmar military leaders must be investigated for genocide against the Rohingyas.
At least 700,000 Rohingya fled violence in the country in the past 12 months.
The move by MPs in the House of Commons came a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that parliament was reconsidering whether Ms. Suu Kyi still deserved the honour of citizenship.
But Mr. Trudeau also said the move would not end the plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people, a Muslim minority which is stateless in majority-Buddhist Myanmar.
In 2007 Canada granted honorary citizenship to Ms. Suu Kyi, just one of six people to be so recognised.
Honorary citizenship has been conferred in Canada by a joint resolution of both houses of parliament. Canadian officials told Reuters it must be formally removed the same way.
The next steps are not immediately clear, Liberal MP Andrew Leslie told journalists on Thursday after MPs passed the motion.
“Now the machinery of government will actually chew over the details of what specifically is required to implement,” he said.
Earlier this month, the House of Commons unanimously adopted a motion to recognise the crimes against the Rohingya as an act of genocide.
In 2015, Ms. Suu Kyi became Myanmar State Counsellor, the de facto head of the country’s civilian administration, following a democratic opening in Myanmar.
Since last year, at least 700,000 Rohingyas have fled Myanmar after the army launched a brutal crackdown in response to attacks by a Rohingya militant group.
Ms. Suu Kyi has faced international pressure to condemn the army’s alleged brutality. However, she has refused to do so.
