At least 12 people, including a popular musician, died on Monday when a small plane crashed against the Caribbean Sea quickly after leaving Roatan Honduran Island, according to officials. The Lanhsa Airlines plane left at night from Roatan, one of the main tourist destinations in the country of the American center, headed for the port of CEIBA in the continental part of Honduran.
The aircraft « made a strong turn to the right of the track and fell into the water, » said Civil Aviation Officer Carlos Padilla.
« The plane almost fell on us. He was fishing, » a fisherman told HCH television, whose name was not given.
The Fire Corps said that 12 people died in the fall, while another five were rescued.
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Dramatic video published on social media by National Police Rescue workers showed that they were wearing a survivor on a bunk on the rocky shore. Another video He showed a similar scene, with police who reported that only one body was still missing as rescue teams continued their search.
The musician Honduran Aurelio Martinez, a popular member of the Garifuna music scene, was among the dead, according to local media. According to the Kennedy CenterMartinez founded Lita Ariran Ensemble, one of the first groups of Garifuna to appear on an internationally distributed album.
« Martínez’s musical virtuosic and the passionate performances made him a main point in the Schebus’s music scene, where he was most beloved by his punta rock, the Garifuna root pop genre, which he took in Central America by storm in the 1990’s, » according to Kennedy Center.
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Among the wounded passengers was a 40 -year -old French citizen who was taken to a hospital in the city of San Pedro Sula on the continental part, said the major Wilmer Guerrero of the Fire Brigade.
According to police, fifteen passengers were on the plane, along with two riders and a flight assistant.
The accident, which passed half a kilometer from the island’s coast, was caused by an « apparent mechanical failure » in the British 41 Jetstream, according to a police statement.
President Honduran Xiomara Castro She said she He had « immediately activated » an emergency committee formed by the armed forces, firefighters and others to help victims of the accident.
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