Ticos Survive TACA
Airline Crash
Airline officials
confirm that 24 Costa
Ricans were among the
survivors of the TACA
airplane that crashed in
Honduras on Friday.
In total six people died
and 86 injured in the
crash.
One of the dead was
confirmed as Nicaraguan,
Harry Brautigam,
president of the Banco
Centroamericano de
Integración Económica (BCIE)
since 2003.
TACA flight 390 was en
route from El Salvador
to Toncontin airport in
Honduras when the pilot
could not stop the
aircraft on landing.
On board were 124
passengers and 6 crew,
in addition to 5 TACA
crew members who were
off duty.
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