Plane goes off runway at Vancouver International Airport [Video]

One of the runways at Vancouver International Airport will be closed for several days after a jet carrying Amazon packages overran it Tuesday morning.

The Prime Air Boeing 767-300 operated by Cargojet went off the eastern boundary of the north runway when it landed around 1:45 a.m. The three crewmembers aboard the flight from Hamilton, Ont., were uninjured and got off the plane safely, a spokesperson for YVR told CTV News.

Tamara Vrooman, airport president and CEO, provided an update on the incident and how it is impacting airport operations at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

She said the airport received a call from the control tower that the plane needed to make an emergency landing, but that details about what triggered the call will be determined through an investigation by Canada’s Transportation Safety Board.

“Our folks are part of that investigation and sharing information that we have along with …