Plane crash off Caribbean island kills at least 12, including music star

At slightest 12 radical including a fashionable instrumentalist died Monday erstwhile a tiny level crashed into the Caribbean oversea rapidly aft taking disconnected from the Honduran land of Roatan, officials and section media said. The Lanhsa Airlines level departed astatine nightfall from Roatan, 1 of the cardinal American country's main tourer destinations, headed for the larboard of La Ceiba connected the Honduran mainland.

The craft "made a crisp crook to the close of the runway and fell into the water," civilian aviation authoritative Carlos Padilla said.

"The level astir fell connected us. I was fishing," a fisherman, whose sanction was not given, told HCH television.

The occurrence section said 12 radical were killed successful the clang portion 5 others were rescued.

Dramatic video posted to societal media by the nationalist constabulary showed rescue workers carrying a subsister connected a stretcher onto the rocky shore. Another video showed a akin scene, with constabulary reporting that lone 1 assemblage was inactive missing arsenic rescue teams continued their search.

Roatan occurrence skipper Franklin Borjas told the Reuters quality bureau that survivors were taken to a adjacent infirmary but provided nary accusation connected their conditions. Borjas told Reuters that the hunt and rescue efforts were analyzable by the terrain.

"It's been hard to entree the mishap (site) due to the fact that determination are 30 meters of rocks and you can't get determination portion walking oregon swimming," helium told Reuters. "The divers helping with the rescue person zero visibility."

Honduran instrumentalist Aurelio Martinez, a fashionable subordinate of the Garifuna euphony scene, was among the dead, section media reported. According to the Kennedy Center, Martinez founded the Lita Ariran ensemble, 1 of the archetypal Garifuna groups to beryllium featured connected an internationally distributed album.

"Martinez's virtuosic musicianship and passionate performances made him a mainstay of the La Cieba euphony scene, wherever helium was champion loved for his instrumentality connected punta rock, the high-energy, Garifuna roots-infused popular genre that took Central America by tempest successful the 1990s," according to the Kennedy Center.

Among the injured passengers was a 40-year-old French national who was being transferred to a infirmary successful the metropolis of San Pedro Sula connected the mainland, Major Wilmer Guerrero of the occurrence section said.

Fifteen passengers were connected the plane, on with 2 pilots and a formation attendant, according to police.

The crash, which happened astir fractional a mile from the island's coast, was caused by an "apparent mechanical failure" connected the British-made Jetstream 41, the constabulary connection said.

Honduran President Xiomara Castro said she had "immediately activated" an exigency committee made up of the equipped forces, firefighters and others to assistance the victims of the accident.

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