Passengers screamed as the plane lurched sideways. In seconds, a routine takeoff turned into a nightmare over open water.
On Roatan Island, witnesses watched in horror as metal and fuel met the sea. A fisherman says he nearly died too.
Rescuers struggled to even reach the wreckage. The truth behind those final sec… Continues…
Civil aviation official Carlos Padilla said the aircraft suddenly veered, “made a sharp turn to the right of the runway and fell into the water”
just moments after takeoff from Roatan Island, Honduras.
The violent maneuver gave pilots and passengers almost no time to react, turning a short flight into a fatal plunge.
A local fisherman who watched the disaster unfold said he narrowly avoided
being struck as the plane smashed into the sea beside his boat.
Roatan Fire captain Franklin Borjas described the desperate
struggle to reach the victims, explaining that jagged rocks stretch for about
30 meters, making it impossible to approach the crash site on foot or by swimming. As waves battered the shoreline
and light faded, rescuers fought both the ocean and the clock, piecing together the last moments of
a flight that should have been routine but ended in unimaginable loss.
