Chaos as aircraft skids off runway

Broken: BW 523, Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737-800 series aircraft, bearing registration 9Y-PBM lies broken at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport yesterday. The US$38 million aircraft was acquired in 2007. (Photo by Aubrey Crawford)

By Mark McGowan and Alva Solomon

Pandemonium reigned aboard Caribbean Airlines flight BW 524 yesterday morning as passengers came to the horrific realization that the plane was not going to stop as expected after it landed.

But the passengers were even more horrified by the ensuing chaos and the fact that the drivers of several yellow taxis, which reached them before the authorities did, fleeced, rather than assisted them.

Passenger Geeta Ramsingh, who was sitting in the economy class of the aircraft, said she noted that the pilot made a steep and “fast” descent into