A Canadian is among three dead after a "horrific" collision involving a small plane and two vehicles on an airport runway in the Bahamas.
The charter plane was coming in for a landing in Mayaguana early Thursday morning to airlift a patient to hospital, according to the Nassau Guardian.
Family members of the patient were parked in two trucks on the runway, shining their headlights on the landing area to guide the pilot. But the plane's wing made contact with one truck, causing it to hurl into the other, which exploded, killing the three occupants.
Former Bahamas MP Sidney Collie told the paper the deceased were his mother, Edith Collie, 81, his sister Ena Mae Holiday, in her 30s, and Ena's husband, a Canadian.
"The Ministry of Transport and Aviation conveys its deepest sympathies to the survivors of the persons killed in that tragic accident," spokeswoman Lorraine Armbrister told QMI Agency, adding she was not in a position to comment on the idenity of the deceased but was of the understanding they were Collie's relatives.
Director of Civil Aviation Patrick Rolle said investigators were still at the site Thursday afternoon and had not yet released the names of the victims.
"From what I'm hearing, this whole thing was pretty horrific," he said.
The charter plane was coming in for a landing in Mayaguana early Thursday morning to airlift a patient to hospital, according to the Nassau Guardian.
Family members of the patient were parked in two trucks on the runway, shining their headlights on the landing area to guide the pilot. But the plane's wing made contact with one truck, causing it to hurl into the other, which exploded, killing the three occupants.
Former Bahamas MP Sidney Collie told the paper the deceased were his mother, Edith Collie, 81, his sister Ena Mae Holiday, in her 30s, and Ena's husband, a Canadian.
"The Ministry of Transport and Aviation conveys its deepest sympathies to the survivors of the persons killed in that tragic accident," spokeswoman Lorraine Armbrister told QMI Agency, adding she was not in a position to comment on the idenity of the deceased but was of the understanding they were Collie's relatives.
Director of Civil Aviation Patrick Rolle said investigators were still at the site Thursday afternoon and had not yet released the names of the victims.
"From what I'm hearing, this whole thing was pretty horrific," he said.