Airport update

We went and saw the plane a few days ago and were surprised at

how there were not more lives lost. Praise the Lord for his goodness on that matter. Five people died in the accident. The pilot, the Brazilian ambassador's wife, and a banker (who died from a heart attack) were on the plane, and the plane landed on a pickup truck and killed two young men. The road that the plane landed on is usually clogged by buses. It is a miracle that there was not one bus on the road at that time.

They are in the process of cleaning up. The plane looks the same outside, but looking through the doors you can see that they are dismantling it from inside.

At this time it is a big discussion on what they will do with the airport. It has been determined that the pilot touched down in the middle of the runway. Tegucigalpa has a short runway and touching down in the middle does not give you time to stop. For a pilot to land at Teguc they must be super qualified. This pilot has been employed by Taca for many years so who knows what went wrong. We do know that he landed the airplane going the wrong way. The control tower suggested that he land in one direction because of the direction of the wind, but he wanted to land with the wind.

They are talking about closing Teguc permanently and moving it to Comayagua and using the Palmerola airbase which is jointly used by Honduras and the US. At this time there is no terminal and they would have to convert a hanger into one. We are praying that they find someway to keep Teguc open as it is a 1 1/2 hour drive to Comayagua. That would make it much harder for us and would lose Teguc much tourist $.