Plane crash onto busy Haitian street kills at least six

Onlookers mill across the wreckage of a small airplane that crashed in the neighborhood of Carrefour, Port-au-Prince on Wednesday.
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A small airplane crashed onto a busy road within the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, killing not less than six individuals together with the pilot, officers stated.

The airplane took off from the Port-au-Prince airport at 3:44 p.m. ET on path to the Haitian metropolis of Jacmel, the Haitian civil aviation authority stated, including the airplane suffered engine failure and despatched a misery alert at 4:04 p.m.

“I lengthen my sympathies to the households of the victims, who've been simply plunged into the best desolation by this new tragedy,” Prime Minister Ariel Henry wrote on Twitter, with out specifying the variety of lifeless or wounded.

Jude Edouard Pierre, mayor of the commune of Carrefour the place the airplane crashed, stated six individuals had died. A authorities supply stated the pilot died after being taken to a hospital.

The airplane initially took off from Port-au-Prince round 3:44 p.m. ET.

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Onlookers gawk on the wreckage in the midst of the road on Wednesday.

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Six persons are confirmed to have died, together with the pilot.

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Movies circulating on WhatsApp confirmed the damaged wreckage of a airplane in the midst of a highway together with what appeared to the our bodies of victims of the crash. Reuters was unable to independently confirm the origin of the movies.