A Chilliwack man has been identified as one of the five people killed in a plane crash off the coast of Roatan in Honduras Sunday morning.
According to officials, Patrick Forseth and four American’s who have yet to be identified were on board a Piper Cherokee Six when it plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff.
The Armed Forces said the small plane was en route to the port of Trukillo.
Forseth, 32, lived between Chilliwack and Honduras, according to his cousin, where he worked as a pilot developing tourism projects in the Trujillo Bay area. The cousin told Black Press Media that it’s believed the plane, which Forseth was flying, malfunctioned before crashing.
Four bodies were recovered by Honduran emergency crews, and a fifth person was taken to hospital where they later died.
In a phone interview with The Canadian Press on Sunday, Jenna Forseth said her brother was “well-loved” in the area, saying “the whole town is in mourning.”
With files from The Canadian Press, The Associated Press
