"9 Killed in Grand Bahama Plane Crash"
By: Associated Press
Source: LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-bahama-plane-crash-20141109-story.html
A small plane crashed this Sunday, November 9, when approaching to the island of Grand Bahama, killing all 9 people on board. This information was given by the government of the Bahamas. Grand Bahama is about 70 miles east of Florida. The plane was a Lear 36 Executive Jet which had taken off from the Bahamian capital of Nassau. The group was on their way to the Global Leadership Forum, which was organized by Munroe and was scheduled for this week in Freeport. A posting on Munroe's Facebook page said the event would go on for two and a half days.Sadly, the jet went down and crashed at about 5 p.m. on local time while it was coming in for a landing at Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport. It was not yet known what caused the crash, although there had been heavy rain across the region.. The police and the rescue teams quickly went to the scene. However, they needed to wait to do a full investigation until it was daylight, some officials said. "The Grand Bahama Airport Company Crash Fire Rescue Department responded to the incident, and the Police and Bahamas Air Sea Rescue (BASRA) are presently on the scene," (Association Press). The names of the victims are still not available. Tomorrow, everything well be cleared up. The names of the people will be released and the investigation will begin to find out why the jet came falling down.
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