Five foreigners including the pilot died on Saturday when their private plane crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Roatan island, a tourist destination on the Atlantic coast of Honduras, local authorities said. Armed forces spokesman Jose Domingo Meza said four of the victims were from the United States and the fifth victim's nationality had yet to be determined. La Prensa, a local newspaper, reported that four Canadian passengers and the plane's American pilot were killed. Local authorities did not immediately offer a cause for the accident. Global Affairs Canada could not immediately confirm whether Canadians were killed in the crash.

Source: CBC News May 19, 2019 03:33 UTC