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Civil Aviation Department investigates Tropic Air plane crash

By on June 4, 2015
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San Pedro town, Ambergris Caye. Thursday, June 4, 2015. Tropic Air, the company which owns and operated the plane that crashed on Tuesday evening has released a brief statement on the incident.

As we reported, a single engine Cessna plane that departed the Phillip Goldson International Airport en route to Roatan in the Bay Islands of Honduras, experienced engine problems shortly after takeoff and crashed about a mile south of Half Moon Caye in the Lighthouse Reef Atoll.

The brief Tropic Air statement said that the Cessna 182 enroute to Roatan, experienced engine malfunction forcing the pilot Denfield Borland to make an emergency landing in the shallow waters near Half Moon Caye.

All three persons on board the aircraft were rescued.

The pilot, Denfield Borland put out a distress call at about 5:17 pm notifying the control tower at the Phillip Goldson International Airport of the engine problems and that he would not be able to reach his destination.

Borland, according to reports, was able to put the aircraft down in a shallow area near Half Moon Caye.

A search and rescue operation involving personnel from the Belize National Coast Guard and the Belize Audubon Society was able to retrieve Borland and his two passengers Eddie Bodden and Arthur Rogiers.

The Department of Civil Aviation and Tropic Air have launched a full investigation into Tuesday’s plane crash.

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