Today was a sad day for us. As Audrey was washing dishes from breakfast we lost power. We had no clue what was going on until a friend of ours called us to tell us that a plane had just been involved in an accident. We live very near the airport so they were wondering how we were. We were without any form of finding out what was going on so we got in the car to listen to the radio and found out it was a big plane from TACA that had over shot the runway.
Honduran news has said that 5 died (three died inside the plane including the pilot, and two were trapped in their cars underneath the plane), but the articles that I have read have stated that two died. When we saw the news reports we were praising God for the small amount of causalities. It could have been so much worse. Also, several of those first on the scene came just to steal the baggage of the traumatized passengers.
While nothing "official" has been said, we know that for some reason the plane kept going right off of the end of the runway. Thankfully planes land away from our house so we were in no way harmed.
There is talk of closing the Toncontin airport (just remodeled and very nice) for a time and flying people into Comayagua (1 1/2 hours away). We are praying that this doesn't happen as it would be a huge headache for us. The city has been in the process of taking down a really big hill to extend the runway, but we don't know if that is going to halted at this time.
If you would like to see the news article you can click here. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,360842,00.html
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