Plane Crash Kills 10
In Guatemala
GUATEMALA - Ten people
died and four were
injured when a small
plane crashed in Zacapa
department, eastern
Guatemala on Sunday,
spokesman of the
Volunteer Firemen Team
Carlos Salazar said.
According to information
reaching here from
Guatemala City, five of
the 10 killed were
United States citizens
from the state of
Wisconsin who here on
vacations, and the other
five were Guatemalans,
including the pilot and
the copilot.
The accident occurred
Sunday's morning when
the aircraft felt down
in a hill at the
municipality of Cabanas,
east of Guatemala and
border with Mexico.
The CBV's spokesman
Salazar told the press
that the aircraft had
Guatemalan license plate
and that is felt down in
the department of
Zacapa.
The aircraft took off
from the International
Airport of La Aurora to
El Estor, in the
department of Izabal.
Civil Aeronautics Agency
director Juan Jose
Carlos said at least 14
people were abroad the
plane, and the aircraft
belonged to the company
Aero Ruta Maya and that
supposedly it has an
enginefailure when it
was flying over Zacapa.
The injured people were
transferred by
helicopter to the
hospital of Zacapa.
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