{"id":8164,"date":"2017-10-11T08:27:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=8164"},"modified":"2017-10-11T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:29:00","slug":"bahamas-texas-newlyweds-go-missing-on-honeymoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/bahamas-texas-newlyweds-go-missing-on-honeymoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas: Texas newlyweds go missing on honeymoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Newlyweds Forrest and Donna Sanco had planned a week-long honeymoon\u00a0in the Bahamas starting Sept. 25, but\u00a0family members now say they never arrived at their destination on the island of Rum Cay.<\/p>

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LeeAnn Burger, Forrest Sanco’s niece, recently created a\u00a0 GoFundMe page\u00a0to raise money for the search\u00a0effort. Another\u00a0Facebook page\u00a0has been created to get the word out about the couple.<\/p>\n

“Due to lack of resources with the Bahamian government and coast guard, we have been forced to hire our own private search crews and pilots,” Burger wrote on the page.\u00a0“This has been costly and could continue to be as we need to search until we find something.”<\/p>

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She wrote on the page that the couple’s last recorded activity was on Sept. 26, when they stopped to get\u00a0fuel in\u00a0North Eleuthera, on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas.<\/p>

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The page has already accrued more than $4,800 of its $10,000 goal as of early Monday evening.\u00a0Burger did not return messages for comment for this story.<\/p>\n

Forrest Sanco had owned a home in Argyle for more than 11 years until he\u00a0sold it last month, according to Denton Central Appraisal District records. He works at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth office, company spokesman Ken Ross said, but his current address is\u00a0unknown.<\/p>

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According to\u00a0The Tribune<\/i>, a Bahamian newspaper based in Nassau, Part and Earl Lambert owned the home the couple\u00a0rented in Rum Cay. Their son, Greg Lambert, manages the property, and he told the paper\u00a0he helped Forrest Sanco navigate the area.<\/p>\n

“I told him how to get to Rum Cay, basically how to charter or fly,” Lambert\u00a0told the paper. “He told me that, at one time, he had been a pilot but had not flown for a number of years.\u00a0He expressed an interest in flying down himself. He seemed to have some experience. He had purchased a plane and was going to get an instructor to give him lessons to bring him back up to speed.”<\/p>

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According to the\u00a0Federal Aviation Administration\u00a0registry, Sanco\u00a0received a private pilot certificate on Aug.\u00a022 and\u00a0flew a single-engine 1966 Cessna to the islands. The plane is pictured in photos on the\u00a0“Bring Forrest and Donna Home”\u00a0Facebook page.<\/p>

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Lambert told the paper the pair flew from Texas to Fort Pierce, Florida, “where most people flying to the Bahamas set off from,” he said.<\/p>\n

He said Sanco had about $160 in repairs done to the aircraft in Fort Pierce and set off to\u00a0Freeport, on the island of Grand Bahama, on Sept. 25.<\/p>\n