Plane accident Liliana Estrada has unveiled popped details about how they thorn the disaster of the Lahnsa Airlines who let 12 people dead and four others injured in Honduras.
In conversation with DailyMail.com from her house in the northern Caribbean port city of La Ceiba on Monday, the 25-year-old explained how her life was probably saved by the position of her chair in the small plane.
She described how the JetStream 32 had two rows on either side of the plane, one row with one chair and the other with two seats.
Because of happiness, the contractor said for Freight Auditor Navix in Minnesota that she has selected the single chair on the left side of the aircraft – opposite a starting door.
“I was right on the wing of the plane. I think that was one of the ways I could get off when the plane fell and split in two, “she said. “According to what I was told, I got out; I took off my seat belt and could swim, “she added.
Estrada left the island of Roatán on March 17 after having spent the weekend with her boyfriend.
For unknown reasons, the flight of José Manuel Gálvez International Airport was postponed with almost an hour before it finally left local time at 6:28 pm. It was hardly in the air before it crashed 328 feet from the edge of the runway at 6.30 pm.
When the plane wreck started sinking in the Caribbean Sea, Estrada managed to go alone before she was saved by two fishermen.
Displayed: Honduras National Airlines Jetstream-32 that crashed in Roatán on March 17, Honduras
Liliana Estrada told Dailmail.com that she was seated by the wing of the plane of Lahnsa Airlines that had crashed in Roatán, Honduras on 17 March and claimed the life of two crew members and 10 passengers. Estrada said she was able to remove her safety belt and swam away from the aircraft that split into two parts after they crashed into the Caribbean Sea
Liliana Estrada told DailyMail.com that she booked a flight with Lahnsa Airlines on 17 March because all other flights were sold out and she had to be home again the next day to work – she was contracted by Navix, a cargo company in Minnesota, a Minnesota
'To be honest, I can't give you much about that, because I don't remember exactly how I came out because of the bumps and bruises that I have. I don't know anymore, “she said.
Video images of mobile phones from the rescue substances see first response who wear her from the rock-filled bank and a hill on to a police pick-up truck, where they placed her body on the flatbed while she screamed with pain.
Estrada underwent an operation to treat a broken pelvis and was fired on Saturday.
'I will be bedridden for at least eight weeks, unable to get up. Thank goodness I have been able to deal with the pain. It's not easy. It is not at all easy to be honest, because it is not easy to be bedridden 24/7 and even needs help to eat, “she said.
Estrada also suffered a second fracture in another part of her pelvis and a break in her spine, but both requirements did not require operations because the doctor discovered that the injuries could heal themselves.
“Even the spinal fracture was very delicate, up to the millimeters,” she said. “It is true that only God could have laid his hand there. I was not paralyzed. '
Five people were injured and 12 were killed after a jet stream of Lahnsa Airlines 32 on March 17 off the coast of Roatán, Honduras crashed
Liliana Estrada told DailyMail.com that she had an operation for a broken pelvis and also a break in the spine that was simply 'millimeters' to leave her paralyzed
According to Estrada it was the first time that she had flown with Lahnsa Airlines since 2024. The flight to Roatán was booked with Sosa Airlines, another regional courier.
Estrada hit the conditions of the fleet of aircraft that Lahnsa Airlines operates in the region.
'This airline [Sosa] In general, aircraft has in very good condition and I understand that they actually inspect them. I was able to confirm this because you can certainly feel the difference, “she said.
“I flew earlier on Lahnsa. I had only flown at Lahnsa this year since last year. The other times I flew, I could see that the planes were certainly neglected, “said Estrada. 'Many of them don't even have air conditioning. I know these are planes that are very old and have no regular maintenance. '
Her comments come after she posted a video on her social media this weekend and criticized Lahnsa Airlines for exposing the two members of the cockpit crew and 15 passengers to dangerous flight conditions.
“I also want to make it clear that the plane already had problems before it even started,” said Estrada, who texted her boyfriend “that” something “was about to go wrong when the plane slipped before he took off.
'The plane left at 5:40 PM and they told us that they would be 25 minutes late, which was not the case; It was more than 25 minutes late. They didn't explain why, “said Estrada. “They just told us that it was a delay and put us on the plane, knowing well the chances that we wouldn't make it.”
The tragedy claimed the life of the pilot, Luis Araya, the co-pilot, Francisco Lagos and 10 passengers, including Honduran musician and politician Aurelio Martínez, 56, a famous figure in the Garifuna music scene, who held double Honduran-American Citizenship.
Santos Guardiola Fire Department Captain Franklin Borjas told reporters that the small plane made a turn to the right before crashing.
He said that the accident may have been caused by a failure in the engine of the plane.
Lanhsa Airlines has said that it will cover the medical and funeral costs for the victims.
According to aviation experts, the possibility of surviving a plane crash can be higher for those passengers who choose the back of the aircraft.
In the past eight decades there have only been 18 fatal commercial flights with at least 80 passengers who left survivors in their wrecks.
“There are many reasons why someone can survive in what seems to be a totally invincible situation,” Barbara Dunn, the president of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators, told the Wall Street Journal.
“Depending on how the plane lands and where a passenger is located, has an impact,” she continued. 'If you have tightened your safety belt, this limits the amount of waving that the body goes through. It also depends on whether the passenger is able to adopt a brace position. '
Where you are on an airplane is not the only factor that comes into play for potential survival.
Although the back of the aircraft can be relatively safer, is where the aircraft is one of the biggest factors that connect – passengers at the front of a nose – first crash wear the victim of the power.
“Many people think it is safer at the back than on the front,” Dunn added. “Not necessarily.”
“How quickly take over the fire and how quickly you can reach an exit, all those things also matter.”
Two people survived a Jeju air accident that left 179 occupants dead in 2024.
There were also two survivors and 97 people dead in a Pakistan International Airlines accident in 2020 in Pakistan.
“If you survive here, you would think that people have survived, and if you hear non-immensely, you would think that everyone is dying,” Anthony T. Brickhouse, an expert in the safety of space travel, told WSJ.
“We have had people we would survive what we would not call -decorative crashes and we also let people die in what we would call surviving crashes.”
