A commercial plane with over 100 people went into the St. Johns River on the night of May 3, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry said.
“I’ve been briefed that all lives have been accounted for,” the mayor tweeted.
Curry said fire and rescue crews were on the scene.
“While they work please pray,” he wrote.
Another Plane Crash Involving Over 100 People
The death of its 157 passengers in Ethiopian Airlines’s Boeing was due to an anti-stalling system, according to BBC. Shortly after taking off, the plane’s nose pitched down, crashing six minutes after it had reached 450 feet above the ground.Ethiopian and United States investigations of the crash found that before the tragedy, the automatic anti-stall system had been activated. The same Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) was also found to have contributed to the doomed Lion Air flight that crashed in Indonesia last year and is believed to have pushed the plane’s nose down toward the earth.
Software has since been redesigned for the Boeing 737 Max-8. MCAS will now be disabled if the plane’s sensors receive conflicting data.
According to BBC, the two crashed planes did not have alert systems that warned the pilots of contradictory readings. The software update will ensure that MCAS will not interfere when the pilot tries to take control of the plane.