The Federal Aviation Administration's Guam office has confirmed that an Air Niugini plane crashed in waters in Chuuk state after it may have overshot a runway earlier today.
No serious injury has been reported.
Air Niugini Flight 73 was scheduled to take off at 9:55 a.m. from the airport on Weno island in Chuuk state, in the Federated States of Micronesia. It was bound for Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.