Severe weather was likely a factor in the small plane crash that killed nine people, including a prominent minister and his wife, on approach to the island of Grand Bahama, AP quoted the foreign minister as saying Monday. Heavy rain was buffeting the region when the Lear 36 Executive Jet struck a shipping container crane in Freeport as it tried to land, Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell said. Mitchell said that a commercial Bahamasair flight making the same route, from Nassau to Freeport, had turned back because it was unable to land around the same time as the flight carrying the Rev. Myles Munroe and several members of his Bahamas Faith Ministries. Civil aviation authorities launched the investigation on Monday. -- SPA 22:23 LOCAL TIME 19:23 GMT تغريد
