Plane crash leaves five dead and one injured in critical condition in Costa Rica: this is known

The accident of a small plane that occurred this Monday in a mountain in central Costa Rica left five people dead and one injured in critical conditionreported the Red Cross.

After several hours of searching under rain and strong winds, the rescue teams managed to reach the wreckage of the aircraft around 9:00 p.m. local time (03:00 GMT on Tuesday). in the upper part of a mountainous area that borders the province of San José.

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“In this area there are five people without vital signs and a 31-year-old woman alive, in critical condition,” a Red Cross spokeswoman told EFE.

The General Directorate of Civil Aviation reported that the occupants of the aircraft were all Costa Ricans identified as Mario Miranda (pilot), 40 years old; Ruth Mora, 27; Paola Amador, 31; Jean Franco Segura, 28; Gabriela Calleja, 64; and Enrique Castillo, 56.

The Costa Rican newspaper La Nación reported that Amador Segura was conscious, oriented and multiple traumatized.as heard in a Red Cross audio report. Two of the occupants died inside the aircraft, and are trapped between the fuselage and three other bodies were left outside the aircraft.

According to local media, the passengers of the aircraft were working in tourism companies.

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The accident occurred this Monday in a mountainous area known as Pico Blanco, between the towns of Escazú and Santa Ana, in the province of San José (center), when the plane lost communication and disappeared from the radar around 12:30 p.m. local (18:30 GMT).

The Cessna 206 Stationer light aircraft, registration TI-GER, suffered the accident when it was heading towards the Juan Santamaría airport, on the outskirts of San José, from Tortuguero, province of Limón (Caribbean).

The aircraft was supposed to land at the Tobías Bolaños airport in San José, but due to bad weather it had to divert to Juan Santamaría.

Rescuers continue working in the area to extract the victims, while civil aviation authorities will investigate the causes of the accident.