CANBERRA, Australia — A South Pacific airline announced Monday that a passenger died when a plane crashed into a Pacific lagoon in Micronesia last week. Air Niugini had initially said all 47 passengers and crew had survived when a Boeing 737 crashed near the Chuuk island runway on Friday. But Air Niugini chief executive Tahawar Durrani said the man’s body was found by divers in the lagoon on Monday. Flight PX73 from nearby Pohnpei island crashed into a lagoon about 145 meters (475 feet) from the Chuuk International Airport runway, the airline said. The airline and the U.S. Navy both said the plane landed in the lagoon short of the runway.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 01, 2018 13:41 UTC