A small passenger aircraft crashed seconds after taking off from a Caribbean island close to mainland Honduras on Monday, killing all however 5 of the 17 individuals on board, the authorities stated.
The Jetstream 32 plane was carrying 15 passengers and two crew members when it departed Monday night from an airport on Roatán Island, the civil aeronautics company of Honduras said in a statement. The flight’s vacation spot was La Ceiba, a close-by metropolis on the nation’s northern coast, the company stated.
The nationwide police later said on social media that 12 individuals aboard had died and 5 had survived. It stated that the physique of a kind of killed was nonetheless lacking, and that restoration efforts continued on the crash website.
The reason for the crash was not instantly clear on Tuesday morning. The civil aeronautics company stated that an investigation had begun.
