At least six people including Hilda Hernandez, sister of President Juan Orlando Hernandez were killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday on a mountain near the capital Tegucigalpa in Honduras. <br/><br/>Hernandez, 51, was an agronomy engineer who served as communications minister under her brother and as minister of social development during the previous administration of then-President Porfirio Lobo.<br/><br/>The military helicopter carrying Hernandez, four members of her security detail and a pilot took off from Tegucigalpa's international airport in the morning bound for her residence in Comayagua, about 60 kilometers from the capital. <br/><br/>Soon afterward, the air force reported that the aircraft had gone missing. <br/>The wreckage was later discovered in the mountains outside Tegucigalpa with no survivors. <br/><br/>No cause for the crash was given, but it happened as the country was being affected by a cold front.
News On AIR | December 17, 2017 11:43 AM
Honduran helicopter crash kills six, including president Juan Orlando's sister