All survive crash landing in lagoon

WELLINGTON - All 47 passengers and crew survived a plane's crash landing on a Pacific lagoon on Friday morning, wading through waist-deep water to the emergency exits and escaping on local boats that came to the rescue in the Micronesia archipelago.

Passengers were forced to swim for their lives and seven of them were later taken to a hospital, according to officials, including one described as being in a critical but stable condition.

Within minutes, locals scrambled a flotilla of small boats to pluck the 35 passengers and 12 crew from the water.