PORT-AU-PRINCE, April 21, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - At least six people died in a
small commercial plane crash in Haiti on Wednesday, according to police.

The aircraft was flying from the capital of Port-au-Prince to the southern
town of Jacmel, Pierre Belamy Samedi, police chief in the suburb Carrefour
where the plane crashed shortly after takeoff, told AFP.

"I saw five unmoving bodies and at least three injured people who were not in
the plane," he said.

Earlier he said the pilot had survived, but police later clarified that the
pilot was among the five dead on board the aircraft.

The crash also killed a motorbike driver and wounded five other people on the
ground, according to Judge Moise Jean. All the wounded were taken to
hospital.

Samedi said the plane also struck a truck carrying consumer goods.

"I am profoundly saddened, after this crash of a small plane on the Carrefour
roadway which has caused deaths and injuries," Prime Minister Ariel Henry
tweeted Wednesday evening.

"I offer my sympathies to the families of the victims, for whom this latest
development has just brought great desolation."

Air traffic has grown substantially in Haiti over the last year, as gang
violence near Port-au-Prince has blocked road connections from the capital to
other parts of the country.