At least 12 people, including a popular musician, died when a small plane crashed into the sea while taking off from a Caribbean island off Honduras, officials said.

Among the victims was prominent musician and Honduran politician Aurelio Martinez. The civil aeronautics agency of Honduras said in a statement that the accident occurred on March 17 shortly after ...

The late Aurelio Martínez grew up in the Garifuna village of Plaplaya on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. He was a ...

Among those twelve was at least one US citizen, as well as popular Honduran musician and politician Aurelio Martinez. As seen in a chilling video posted on social media of the rescue efforts ...

Aurelio Martínez, the longtime ambassador of Garifuna music and former Honduran congressman, has died. He was 55. Martínez’s official Facebook page confirmed his death and mourned the loss of ...

Aurelio Martínez, the celebrated Honduran folk musician who helped introduce the wider world to the music of the Garifuna people, died Monday, March 17, in a small passenger plane crash. He was ...

The aircraft "made a sharp turn to the right of the runway and fell into the water," a Honduran civil aviation official said.

Well-known Garifuna musician Aurelio Martinez, who held dual citizenship in Honduras and the United States, was among the dead, according to fire officials. Martinez founded Lita Ariran ...

Aurelio Martínez Suazo, the Honduran musician who championed his country’s Garifuna people (also known as the Garínagu) and brought the music to wider international attention, has died.

Aurelio Martinez, a popular member of the Honduran Garifuna scene in the 1990s who became his nation’s first black congressman, was among those killed when the aircraft crashed shortly after ...