Antiguan Pilot Feared Dead In Texas Plane Crash

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An Antiguan pilot is among three people feared dead after a cargo jetliner crashed this afternoon in Texas.

The names of the individuals on board this flight have not been officially released.

However, a person close to the man’s family in Antigua say the family received the news about the crash today.

Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said some human remains have been recovered but didn’t specify whether three bodies had been found.

Hawthorne said the crash site in Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, is in water just 5 feet deep and is reachable by airboats and other flat-bottom craft.

The scene extends over 3 miles, he said.Multiple dive teams from the Texas Department of Public Safety, Houston Police, and the Baytown Police are at the crash site, he added.

The sheriff described seeing the contents of packages and cardboard boxes as he traveled across the water, then seeing parts of the twin-engine Boeing 767. The flight was operated by Atlas Air Inc.”There was nothing intact of the airplane,” he said.

“Knowing what I saw, I don’t think anyone could survive it.”He said about six people saw the plane go into the water. Some said it sounded like the engines were “surging,” the sheriff said.”There’s no doubt he was having some kind of problem with the airplane, according to the eyewitnesses,” the sheriff said.

“Then it turned and went into a nosedive.”The 767 was in a normal descent as it approached George Bush Intercontinental Airport, then went into a “very, very rapid descent” at 6,300 feet, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt told reporters in Washington before his team left for Texas.

Atlas Air said three people on the plane “and their family members are our top priority at this time.” The operator said it was cooperating with federal investigators.

The plane was branded as an Amazon Prime Air jet, according to FlightRadar24.com. It was traveling from Miami to Houston when it went down about 40 miles southeast of the airport.Aerial images from CNN affiliate KPRC showed emergency responders on airboats near the site of a significant amount of debris.

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6 COMMENTS

  3. So sad. My condolences to the family as I call forth the Light of Christ to surround them lift them up and carry them through

  4. Really sad news I knew Jules very well. Never easy, I offer my condolences to the family especially his dad little sis and brother. Be strong guys.

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