While the security forces are busy searching for the persons who were on board a Cessna aircraft when it crash landed on White Sands Beach in Rocky Point, Clarendon on Saturday evening, sources from the area are indicating what they understand to have actually happened and why law enforcers have so far not been able to find the passengers from the craft.
The sources told Loop News that three Hispanic men are now on the run, hunkering down from authorities in a neighbouring community after surviving an emergency landing of the plane on the beach.
“People who were on the spot to assist the men said that there were three men, Hispanic looking; not sure if it is Colombians or Mexicans. When they (residents) got to the plane, there was no cargo, just one bag was on the plane and it was full of gadgets, several iPhone 12s, MacBook Pros, a tracking device, a GPS system, and another piece of equipment they couldn’t identify,” said one sources.
Members of the security forces have been scouring the surrounding areas to find the men who are thought to have disembarked the plane, this while some locals were busy giving refuge to the ‘foreigners’.
“Men in the area gave them refuge for the first night, but word on the streets is that the three men pay dem off, run a big piece a food and cut, and gone to a neighbouring community with a next set of man because ah pure police and soldiers ah drive up and down a look fi dem.
“The plane had a Mexican flag inside it, and the number on the tail suggests that the plane itself was manufactured in Mexico, so no one knows if ah lost the man dem lost or what,” said another source.
It is unlikely that the fugitives would have ditched the plane deliberately, as it is believed that a twin-engine Cessna can set an owner back between US$75,000 and $300,000.
‘Eyewitnesses’ also reportedly said the plane noticeably had an empty fuel tank.
In a release on Sunday from the Corporate Communications Unit (CCN), the police said the aircraft, a Cessna XB-JMR twin-engine plane, made a landing on the coast, based on reports from citizens who said they saw the airplane fall from the sky.
Reports from the Lionel Town police are that about 7 pm they were summoned to the location and on their arrival, the aircraft was located and checked.
No passengers or cargo were reportedly seen on the plane or in its vicinity.
Several checks were subsequently made at nearby hospitals, but medical personnel reported that no one had arrived at their facilities from the crash site.
Investigations into the incident are ongoing, the police stated.
