Four people were killed in a Bahamas plane crash on Sunday.
The four victims, believed to be US citizens, died when their plane came down shortly after takeoff from Grand Bahama Island at around 11am local time, WTHR reports.
According to Wish TV, the pilot was businessman Tony Wishart from Fishers, Indiana. It is believed he was with another man and two woman on the plane.
The American tourists were on the plan as part of a sightseeing tour. The group was on a local sightseeing flight in the area of Freeport, Grand Bahamas when the jet crashed into low waters about seven miles north of the Freeport control tower.
According to Emrick Seymour, assistant police commissioner for Grand Bahama, the Cirrus 22 aircraft crashed just minutes after taking off from the international airport. The pilot had told traffic control that the plane was "experiencing some engine problems."
The plane is registered to First Class Flyers, LLC, in Cicero, Indiana. Further information about the victims will not be released until their family members have been notified. Police are investigating the incident. The plane had been completely destroyed in the crash.
This crash was just one of many recently in the Bahamas. Just a week ago, two men had to be rescued from the water near Staniel Cay after a twin-engine plane that they were on crashed. The men had to be lifted by a US Coastguard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter. The two men escaped the scene uninjured.
A year before, a helicopter crash left one person dead and another four injured after a strong gust of wind sent it flipping out of control while trying to land near Baker's Bay Golf and Ocean Club on Great Guana Cay.
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