Roatán adds five air accidents in the last six years

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March 18, 2025March 18, 2025By Mario Vásquez
Roatán adds five air accidents in the last six years

During the night of the past Monday, March 17around 7:40 p.m., a commercial plane of the Honduran airline “Lansa” Just one minute fell into the sea after taking off from the “Juan Manuel Gálvez” International Airport on the island of Roatánin the Caribbean of Honduras.

The Deputy Director of Civil Aeronautics in Honduras, Jorge Corrales, He informed the Honduran journalists that, according to the institution’s preliminary report, 16 passengers and two pilots were traveling in the aircraft. La Ceibawhere they had to land at the “Guillermo Anderson” International Airport.

Jorge Corrales explained that the plane fire When impacting the sea and it was the local lifeguards who began to transfer the injured to a Roatán hospital: “It was an extremely difficult and complicated rescue because the plane crash occurred when there was no longer daylight In the sector. They didn’t find passengers. ”

Subsequently, the Honduras Fire Department reported that the air incident in Roatán “unfortunately left 12 dead people And an individual missing”, While the other five passengers are in the region’s hospital, according to the Directorate of Civil Aeronautics.

Fifth plane crash in Roatán since 2019

This new incident joins a worrying list of aerial accidents that occurred on the Honduran Island of Roatán since 2019. In the last six years, they have registered five incidents. However, the tragedy last Monday, March 17 has been the one that left more people killed in the last decade.

In May 2019, a Piper PA-32 plane, HR-ARK registration, bound for the municipality of Trujilloon the Caribbean coast of the Honduran department of Colonhe fell to the sea two minutes after taking off from the airport “Juan Manuel Gálvez”. Five people died, including four Canadian citizens.

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Subsequently, at the end of December 2020, a private jet registered an accident when leaving Roatán for a failure in the undercarriage. Given this situation, as the aircraft was with serious damage, the pilot He was the only person who died in the incident, while the other crew members were unharmed.

Then, in November 2022, a cargo plane left the track when landing after reporting technical problems. On this occasion, there was no deceased, but the incident left the passengers injured and forced to temporarily close the town airport due to the damage caused to the infrastructure of the enclosure.

Then, in April 2024, a plane Cessna With six passengers on board he left the track during landing in Roatán. As in the previous occasion, there were no victims fatalonly injured among the occupants, who mentioned that the airport “did not meet the requirements to meet these emergencies”

Finally, during the night of Monday, March 17, 2025, 12 people died when they fell into the sea after leaving the Caribbean island, including the renowned Honduran artist Aurelio Martínez Suazoof the American Garifuna and nationalized ethnicity, who was also deputy by San Pedro Sula in the Parliament of Honduras.

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