Upon landing at Tegucigalpa’s Toncontin International Airport in rain and heavy fog on May 30, 2008, the pilot was unable to brake the aircraft in time to keep it from skidding off the runway. The plane crashed down a 20-meter (66-foot) embankment, plowed across a road and broke into three pieces. The pilot and co-pilot were killed as well as other persons in a car.

The crash report claimed that, “Even if the control tower gave him authorization to land, if he considered the conditions too dangerous, the pilot in charge can decide not to land.”

Following the well publicized crash, Toncontin was closed to large aircraft for a month and a half.

Aviation experts explain that the airport in Tegucigalpa is ringed by mountains and considered one of the most dangerous in Central America.