On December 22, 2009, about 2222 eastern standard time, American Airlines flight 331, a Boeing 737-800, N977AN, ran off the departure end of runway 12 after landing at Norman Manley International Airport (KIN) Kingston, Jamaica. The aircraft landed approximately 4,000 feet down the 8,911-foot-long, wet runway with a 14-knot tailwind component and was unable to stop on the remaining runway length. After running off the runway end, it went through a fence, across a road, and came to a stop on the sand dunes and rocks above the waterline of the Caribbean Sea adjacent to the road.1 No fatalities or postcrash fire occurred. Eighty-five of the 154 occupants (148 passengers, 4 flight attendants, and 2 pilots) received injuries ranging from minor to serious. The airplane was substantially damaged. Instrument meteorological conditions and heavy rains prevailed at the time of the accident flight, which originated at Miami, Florida, on an instrument flight rules flight plan.