### [2025-03-17](/feed/2025/03/17/index.md)

##### Aurelio Martinez
# 12 people, including popular Honduran musician Aurelio Martinez, are killed and five others are rescued when Aerolínea Lanhsa Flight 018, a British Aerospace Jetstream 41, crashes into the Caribbean Sea shortly after takeoff from Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport in Roatán, Bay Islands Department, Honduras. 




### Sources:

1. [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/honduras-plane-crash-roatan-island-12-deaths-musician-aurelio-martinez/)

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