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- Air Niugini Flight 73 crash-landed into a Micronesian lagoon after the pilot missed the runway last Friday.
- The airline said everyone safely evacuated the aircraft, but now says one man had died.
- Over the weekend airline authorities said they were unable to account for that man, who was seen leaving the aircraft and on a dinghy going to shore.
- How the man disappeared between boarding the dinghy and arriving to land is not clear.
A Papua New Guinean airline whose plane crash-landed into a Pacific island lagoon last week has reported one death from the disaster, three days after claiming that everyone survived.
Air Niugini Flight 73 crash-landed into a lagoon off the Micronesian island of Chuuk last Friday morning after the pilot missed the runway. The Boeing 737 aircraft had been flying from Pohnpei, another Micronesian island, earlier that day.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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