TEGUCIGALPA, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Two people on board died on Wednesday as a cocaine-trafficking plane crashed on a highway in northern Honduras, military sources reported.
The accident occurred early on Wednesday morning. Witness said the light-plane burst into flames after colliding with a high tension cable in Tripoli, Atlantida department, some 300 kilometers north to Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.
A spokesman from Honduras' Naval Forces said the plane was believed to be transporting drugs before the accident.
He said both crew on board were killed, their bodies completely burnt, which makes it impossible at the moment to find out their identity nor nationality.
The plane's itinerary remains unclear so far, he said.
This is the second cocaine-transporting plane crash reported since the coup d'etat on June 28 which turned the Central American country a scene of turbulence amid constant conflicts and messy social order.
The coup dethroned the Honduran President Manuel Zelaya by military force and later an interim government was designated by the Congress to replace him.
Honduran post-coup leader Roberto Micheletti had said that since Zelaya was ousted no more drug trafficker planes have entered the airspace of the country, insinuating the link between the ousted president and illegal drug trade.
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