No injuries as US military plane overshoots runway and ends up in sea

This photo provided by witness Diane Dircks shows a US Navy plane that overshot a Marine base on Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (Diane Dircks/AP)

All nine people on board a US Navy place which overshot a runway and went into the sea in Hawaii have escaped without injury, according to emergency services.

The PA-8A aircraft overshot the runway at a base on Kaneohe Bay, about 10 miles from Honolulu on the island of Oahu.

When emergency workers got to the scene, military officials told them the nine people aboard made it safely to shore with no injuries, Shayne Enright of the Honolulu emergency medical services department said on Monday.

A downed US Navy aircraft in Kaneohe Bay (Jamm Aquino/Honolulu Star-Advertiser/AP)

Spokesperson petty officer Ryan Fisher said the coast guard responded but that rescue operations were quickly called off.

“It sounds like all parties involved were rescued,” he said.

It was cloudy and rainy with visibility about 1 mile when the plane entered the water shortly after 2pm on Monday, said Thomas Vaughan, a national weather service meteorologist in Honolulu.

The P-8A, which is based at Whidbey Island in Washington, is often used to hunt for submarines and reconnaissance and intelligence gathering.

The Kaneohe Bay base, which houses about 9,300 military personnel and 5,100 family members, is one of several military installations on Oahu.