Fwd: Emailing: anguillian-registration-plane-crashed.htm
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts =80 AN Anguillan pilot and five passengers who were earlier today (Oct. =3) involved in a plane crash and reported missing were found alive.
According to the St. Maarten=News Network's website the plane's captain, Kirby Hodge, a=d passengers were found alive by rescue workers in St. Croix.
Sources close to Hodge's family in Anguilla suggest that the =ive passengers were found drifting in a raft that was prepared for them by=Hodge while he swam to a nearby key.
Reports circulated that Captain Hodge, who owns Rainbow International=Airlines, and his passengers may have disappeared after taking off from St= Croix sometime after 6:00 a.m.
Hodge is a popular Anguillan=pilot and well known entrepreneur, who is responsible for air evacuation w=thin the region and delivering newspapers to the island of St. Croix from 4. Thomas, was returning back to St. Thomas from St. Croix after picking up several passengers.
This morning, Air Towers in =an Juan Puerto Rico contacted St. Maarten and Martinique to inquire if the=flight manned by Captain Hodge had landed at any of the two airports.
Shortly after rescue workers were dispatched in search of the aircraf=.
It was later understood that the wreckage of the aircraft was found =ut none of the passengers were located.
Many family members and friends who prayed for Hodge and his passeng=rs' safe return rejoiced at the good news that they were all alive=
This is the second plane to have crashed in the re=ion over a seven-day period.
On Monday (Oct. 8), Montserrat was in mourning fol=owing a crash of the national airline in Antigua late Sunday afternoon.
Reports stated that shortly after 4:00 p.m. October 7, a Briti=h Norman Islander nine-seat aircraft operated by Fly Montserrat had crashe= shortly after takeoff from the V.C. Bird International Airport.
There were three passengers on board along with the pilo=, Jason Forbes, who was pronounced dead on the scene. A woman, later ident=fied as Annya Duncan, a Jamaican national and teacher at the Montserrat Se=ondary School also died in the aircraft. A 57-year old Guyanese woman was the other victim.
The woman was said to have died shortly after arriving a= the Mount Saint John Medical Centre and the sole survivor is a British na=ional, who is said to have sustained bruises, lacerations and a broken ank=e and that none of his injuries were life threatening, according to official reports.
Fly Montserrat also resumed its regular scheduled service on M=nday among Antigua, Montserrat and Nevis.
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Saturday evening relatives o= Captain Hodge and other Anguillians were rejoicing when they were told th=t all six persons on board the aircraft were found alive.
Hours later their joy turned=into sadness when they learnt that the search and rescue mission was calle= off due to the inclement weather conditions and that only one female pass=nger that was on board flight 5553Y—AZTEX that left St. Croix en route to St. Thomas early Saturday morning crashed =as rescued.
The female survivor told res=ue workers that all six of the passengers including her child exited the a=rcraft alive but they all got separated due to the bad weather conditions =nd high waves.
Information from San Juan To=ers now states that the search and rescue was called off because of inclem=nt weather and darkness of the night.
Earlier on Saturday afternoon, SMN News received information from the Tower= at PJIAE which stated that they were informed that all the passengers wer= found in a raft drifting while the pilot swam to a nearby key. SMN News a=so received the same information from the Towers in Martinique.
Late Saturday evening SMN News was told that the information they received =emained the same. However, information from St. Croix Airport states that =nly one female passenger was rescued and up to press time the other five p=ssengers were not located including well known Pilot Kirby Hodge.
The passenger that was rescu=d SMN News learnt was taken to St. Croix while scores of family members of=the victims and the pilot gathered at a beach in St. Thomas to see if the =oast Guard was going to show up with their loved ones.
Kirby Hodge is a well known pilot and businessman from Island Harbour Angui=la. He owns Rainbow International Airlines which is responsible for air ev=cuation within the region.
This latest crash came just one week after an aircraft crashed on the V.C. =ird International Airport in Antigua where three persons including the pil=t lost their lives.
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Related:
http://theanguillian.com/2012/03/anguillian-airline-o-fers-improved-air-ambulance-services/
http://theanguill=an.com/2012/03/anguillian-airline-offers-improved-air-ambulance-services/
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