{"id":33929,"date":"2013-04-04T08:57:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T12:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=33929"},"modified":"2013-04-04T08:57:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T12:57:02","slug":"3-dead-in-mayaguana-runway-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/3-dead-in-mayaguana-runway-crash","title":{"rendered":"3 Dead in Mayaguana Runway Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/3-dead-in-mayaguana-runway-crash-33929.html\/plane\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33930\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33930\" title=\"plane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/plane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/plane.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/plane-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Minister of Transport and Aviation Glenys Hanna-Martin said that three people died early this morning when a charter plane collided with a vehicle on the airport runway in Mayaguana.<\/p>\n<p>According to a preliminary report, at around 12:30 AM, a Cessna C402 owned by Leair Charter Service Ltd with a crew of 2 on board was making a landing at night for an emergency evacuation flight with two vehicles strategically placed to outline the useable portion of the runway.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft reportedly made contact with one of the vehicles, resulting in the deaths of the three passengers in that vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Hanna-Martin said that an investigative team was scheduled to fly into Mayaguana at 5 o&#8217;clock this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish to assure that a full investigation will be carried out by the Department of Civil Aviation into the causes and circumstances surrounding this terrible event,&#8221; Hanna-Martin told The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I extend my heartfelt condolences to the families of these beloved persons and to the wider community of Mayaguana who share in this loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Transport and Aviation Glenys Hanna-Martin said that three people died early this morning when a charter plane collided with a vehicle on the airport runway in Mayaguana. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1503,1502],"class_list":["post-33929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-mayaguana","tag-runway-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}