At least six Americans were injured on Tuesday when a plane crashed while landing at the Honduran capital’s international airport and split in two. The commercial jet from Austin, Texas left the runway and veered into a ditch, Carlos Cordero, deputy head of Honduras’s disaster relief agency Copeco told local media. Firefighters arrived at Toncontin airport in Tegucigalpa and used foam to extinguish flames coming from the wreckage. Local businessman Pedro Atala said he and his employees had helped put out the flames with fire extinguishers, and that he helped five men and a woman, all of whom were “practically unharmed.” “Miraculously” the accident hadn’t been worse, he added.
Firefighters spray foam on the wreckage of a plane after it went off the runway at Toncontin International airport and collapsed over a busy boulevard in Tegucigalpa on Tuesday.
