Plane crash was aborted takeoff

Details are slowly emerging on yesterday’s aviation mishap at the Corozal municipal airstrip. Contrary to information reported to us last night from the scene, the Maya Island Air flight en route to San Pedro never did leave the ground. It appears that the takeoff was aborted and the plane rolled off the end of the runway where it eventually hit a barbed wire fence and ran into several orange trees before coming to a stop around three hundred yards beyond the strip. The plane, a Cessna Caravan, was extensively damaged, however, neither pilot Nigel Flowers nor any of the eleven passengers were seriously injured.