A commuter jet ran off the end of a runway at the Roanoke-Blacksburg Airport on Wednesday night as it landed during a heavy rainfall.

None of the 53 passengers and crew members were injured. But for Deborah Tatar, who was on board the United Airlines Flight 4339 from Washington Dulles International Airport, it was quite a jolt.

“We came down very fast, and we hit the runway pretty hard and bounced,” Tatar said Thursday in a telephone interview from Blacksburg, where she and her husband were headed at the time of the 9:18 p.m. incident.

“And then they put the brakes on really hard,” she said. “That was alarming, because I had never heard airplane brakes make a sound like that.”

The Embraer EMB-145XR aircraft overshot its landing and ran out of space on the runway, according to Virginia

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