Pilots of a Central American Airways Let L-410 failed to follow the correct instrument procedure for landing at Tegucigalpa before the aircraft struck terrain in poor weather while attempting a second approach. The twin-engined aircraft, arriving from San Pedro Sula as flight CAA731, had initially been cleared for a northerly approach to runway 20. However, […]
A retired Canadian pilot who witnessed a float plane crash off the Honduran island of Roatan last week says he helped rescue a couple with a small child out of the water. Larry Forseth, 63, told CTVNews.ca he was on a parasail boat in the Caribbean Sea not far from shore Wednesday when a small […]
The Central American Airways plane that crashed in Cerro de Hula during its approach to Tegucigalpa was on route from San Pedro Sula to Tegucigalpa. Weather is being considered the cause at this point, as the Let 400 aircraft was a newer plane, with the latest technology, and had only 3,000 hours of use when […]