From: Bill Hough -------------------- Plane Overruns Runway During Arrival At JFK -------------------- The Associated Press May 30, 2003, 10:56 AM EDT A cargo plane overran a runway while arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport early Friday, authorities said. There were three crew members aboard the plane, which originated in Brussels, Belgium, and none of them were injured, according to Pasquale DiFulco, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. DiFulco said there may be some damage to the plane, a MD-11 operated by Gemini Air Cargo. The plane stopped in an area at the end of the runway called an arrestor bed at about 4:30 a.m., DiFulco said. The arrestor bed, designed to stop planes safely when they continue past the end of the runway, appeared to have worked properly, DiFulco said. The airport did not close, though traffic stopped briefly, he said. Thomas A. Corcoran, the chief executive of Gemini Air Cargo, said by telephone from the company's Dulles, Va., headquarters that "on approach and landing everything was normal. He said the company was working with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board to determine what happened. The arrestor bed technology also safely stopped an American Eagle commuter plane that overran a runway at the airport in May 1999. Copyright (c) 2003, Newsday, Inc. -------------------- This article originally appeared at: http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/transportation/ny-nycplane0530,0,30278.story Visit Newsday online at http://www.newsday.com