Comayagua - Comayagua

On August 16, 2017 at 09:40 AM, Comayagua - Comayagua experienced a crash involving Let L-410, operated by Honduran Air Force - Fuerza Aérea Hondureña, with the event recorded near Comayagua-Palmerola AFB Comayagua.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was flight at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

3 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 33.3%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The crew was completing a local training flight at Comayagua-Palmerola AFB when the twin engine aircraft crashed in unknown circumstances onto a building. The captain was killed while the copilot and the flight engineer were injured. The aircraft was destroyed. Crew: Cpt Olvin Emanuel Florez Meraz, pilot, † Lt Cesar Augusto Banegas Corea, copilot, Cdt Brayan Daniel Zavala Amaya, flight mechanic.

Aircraft reference details include registration FAH-322, MSN 87 18 27, year of manufacture 1987.