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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A plane with 93 people on board has skidded off a runway while landing during heavy rain at an airport in southern Ecuador.
The Cuenca airport says on its Twitter account that the Brazilian-made Embraer 190 jet operated by local airline TAME was arriving from the capital of Quito when the incident took place around 8 a.m. local time Thursday.
Two people were hospitalized with light injuries.
The accident has forced a shutdown of operations at the airport.
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