Date: 2/11/2009
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Strong winds and currents are forcing authorities to hold off a search for five people missing in a small plane crash off Puerto Rico’s coast.
The island’s emergency management director said Tuesday that the search will resume as soon as weather conditions permit. Heriberto Sauri has said that sharks in the area also have become an obstacle.
The remains of one man have been found.
The plane took off from the Dominican Republic and was headed to Puerto Rico with a pilot and five passengers when it crashed near the island’s northwest coast on Sunday.
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US investigator leads plane crash probe
Date: 12/5/2008
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. investigator is studying the charred wreckage of a small plane that plowed into a Puerto Rican rainforest to pinpoint the cause of the deadly crash.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board says Todd Gunther is leading the probe.
The Rockwell International 690B plane slammed into El Yunque mountain on Wednesday, killing Caribbean pilot Ken Webster and two U.S. tourists on board.
A spokesman for the Medical Mutual of Ohio health insurance company is identifying the two Americans as Kent W. Clapp, the firm’s chief executive, and his fiancee, Tracy Turner. Puerto Rican officials previously had identified the man as Ken Clapp.
The couple from Avon Lake outside Cleveland chartered the plane from the British Virgin Islands.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. investigator is studying the charred wreckage of a small plane that plowed into a Puerto Rican rainforest to pinpoint the cause of the deadly crash.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board says Todd Gunther is leading the probe.
The Rockwell International 690B plane slammed into El Yunque mountain on Wednesday, killing Caribbean pilot Ken Webster and two U.S. tourists on board.
A spokesman for the Medical Mutual of Ohio health insurance company is identifying the two Americans as Kent W. Clapp, the firm’s chief executive, and his fiancee, Tracy Turner. Puerto Rican officials previously had identified the man as Ken Clapp.
The couple from Avon Lake outside Cleveland chartered the plane from the British Virgin Islands.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.
