UPDATE (10:05 A.M. Thursday)- According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the commercial aircraft that went off the end of the runway Wednesday night at Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport was an Embraer (EMB-145XR), a regional jet-aircraft operated by CommuteAir.

"Aircraft landed and went off the end of the runway into the EMAS, Roanoke, VA," the FAA incident notification read. EMAS is an acronym for engineered materials arrestor system, which helps to reduce the impact during a hard landing, when the plane leaves the runway. The damage to the aircraft is listed as "unknown." • A commercial plane has gone off the runway at Roanoke-Blacksburg Airport, with no injuries reported and passengers being taken off the plane. • It appears to have been a full flight. There were 50 passen

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