TEGUCIGALPA—A passenger plane skidded off a runway at Tegucigalpa airport in Honduras on Friday as it was trying to land and veered onto a road, killing at least one of those on board, officials said.
A local manager of El Salvador's TACA airline, Armando Funez, told Honduran television there were 142 passengers on board the plane, which was arriving from San Salvador when it zig-zagged off the runway and smacked into some cars.
Local media said several people were trapped in cars underneath the plane, which also hit a small wooden food store.
A doctor at the hospital treating those injured told Honduran television that one of the passengers, who he said was a director of a regional Central American integration bank, had died.
"I am thanking God I am alive—there are other passengers who are in a very bad way," survivor Roberto Sosa told Honduran radio.
The plane was trying to land in heavy fog and circled the airport several times before descending, one passenger said.
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