{"id":215079,"date":"2019-05-20T03:44:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T07:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=215079"},"modified":"2019-05-20T03:45:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T07:45:08","slug":"4-americans-1-canadian-die-in-small-plane-crash-in-honduras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/20\/4-americans-1-canadian-die-in-small-plane-crash-in-honduras\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Americans, 1 Canadian die in small plane crash in Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_215080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215080\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Roatan_Honduras_16621616286.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-215080\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Roatan_Honduras_16621616286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Roatan_Honduras_16621616286.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Roatan_Honduras_16621616286-768x393.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Piper Cherokee Six plummeted into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff from the popular tourist destination of Roatan en route to the port of Trujillo. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=39267795\">File Photo By Jonathan Palombo &#8211; Roatan, Honduras, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras \u2014 Four Americans and a Canadian pilot were killed when a small plane went down off the coast of Roatan island in Honduras, officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Armed Forces spokesman Jose Domingo Meza confirmed the nationalities of those who died in Saturday&#8217;s crash.<\/p>\n<p>The Piper Cherokee Six plummeted into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff from the popular tourist destination of Roatan en route to the port of Trujillo. The military said in a statement that rescue boats with police divers and firemen recovered four bodies within minutes of the crash, and transported another to a hospital, where he died shortly after of internal injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department also confirmed the deaths of four U.S. citizens and Global Affairs Canada confirmed that a Canadian also had died. They did not release names.<\/p>\n<p>Honduran authorities identified the pilot as Patrick Forseth, a Canadian national who developed tourism projects in the Trujillo Bay area.<\/p>\n<p>Forseth was involved in a legal dispute with Afro-indigenous Hondurans who accused him of trying to develop their ancestral lands into vacation properties for international tourists. Forseth defended his company in a 2017 statement, saying it had purchased the land in 2013 and had made several attempts to reach an amicable resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras \u2014 Four Americans and a Canadian pilot were killed when a small plane went down off the coast &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":215080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-freddy-cuevas","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215082,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215079\/revisions\/215082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}