{"id":13743,"date":"2025-03-18T11:14:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/plane-crash-off-caribbean-island-kills-at-least-12-people-including-popular-honduran-musician-aurelio-martinez\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T11:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:14:38","slug":"plane-crash-off-caribbean-island-kills-at-least-12-people-including-popular-honduran-musician-aurelio-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/plane-crash-off-caribbean-island-kills-at-least-12-people-including-popular-honduran-musician-aurelio-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane crash off Caribbean island kills at least 12 people, including popular Honduran musician Aurelio Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>At least 12 people including a popular musician died Monday when a small plane crashed into the Caribbean sea quickly after taking off from the Honduran island of Roatan, officials said. The Lanhsa Airlines plane departed at nightfall from Roatan, one of the central American country&#8217;s main tourist destinations, headed for the port of La Ceiba on the Honduran mainland.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft &#8220;made a sharp turn to the right of the runway and fell into the water,&#8221; civil aviation official Carlos Padilla said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plane almost fell on us. I was fishing,&#8221; a fisherman, whose name was not given, told HCH television.<\/p>\n<p>The fire department said 12 people were killed in the crash while five others were rescued.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/18\/4db7a74c-03ee-49f3-aa92-2759526589c5\/thumbnail\/620x330\/bf1c69591f3fd82567471f696cb12feb\/2025-03-18t033008z-1332054637-rc2ffdajxm1d-rtrmadp-3-honduras-crash.jpg?v=0f810147b409d4839bb6b9850f758494#\" alt=\"Aftermath of a plane crash in Honduras \" height=\"330\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" 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     <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Policia Nacional de Honduras\/Handout via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dramatic video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PoliciaNacionaldeHonduras\/videos\/3791923904454033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted \u00a0social media by the national police<\/a> showed rescue workers carrying a survivor on a stretcher onto the rocky shore. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PoliciaNacionaldeHonduras\/videos\/565849983175556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Another video<\/a> showed a similar scene, with police reporting that only one body was still missing as rescue teams continued their search.<\/p>\n<p>Honduran musician Aurelio Martinez, a popular member of the Garifuna music scene, was among the dead, local media reported. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/artists\/m\/ma-mn\/aurelio-martinez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to the Kennedy Center<\/a>, Martinez founded the Lita Ariran  ensemble, one of the first Garifuna groups to be featured on an internationally distributed album.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Martinez&#8217;s virtuosic musicianship and passionate performances made him a mainstay of the La Cieba music scene, where he was best loved for his take on punta rock, the high-energy, Garifuna roots-infused pop genre that took Central America by storm in the 1990s,&#8221; according to the Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/18\/9a1128c4-8c49-4490-b762-818b0d94d2fd\/thumbnail\/620x428\/b6d72bfbc41d53314b6b060c50722289\/gettyimages-539500774.jpg?v=0f810147b409d4839bb6b9850f758494#\" alt=\"Hollywood Bowl Presents The 38th Anniversary Playboy Jazz Festival 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California.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Mathew Imaging via Getty<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Among the injured passengers was a 40-year-old French citizen who was being transferred to a hospital in the city of San Pedro Sula on the mainland, Major Wilmer Guerrero of the fire department said.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen passengers were on the plane, along with two pilots and a flight attendant, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The crash, which happened about half a mile from the island&#8217;s coast, was caused by an &#8220;apparent mechanical failure&#8221; on the British-made Jetstream 41, the police statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Honduran President Xiomara Castro <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/XiomaraCastroZ\/status\/1901825663948018106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said she<\/a> had &#8220;immediately activated&#8221; an emergency committee made up of the 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