The nine victims who died when a charter plane crashed into Lake Killarney last year were remembered yesterday during an emotional memorial held by family and friends near the crash site.
A twin engine Cessna operated by Acklins Blue Air Charter was on its way to San Salvador for the Discovery Day weekend festival.
The plane crashed only minutes after taking off from the Lynden Pindling International Airport. Among the victims were engineers employed with Music Needs Sound Production Company.
Clarence Nathaniel Williams, 38; Chet Johnson, 39; Corey Farquharson, 41; pilot Nelson Hanna, 43; Junior Lubin, 23; Devon Storr, 27; Chanoine Mildor, 44; Lavard Curtis, 26; and Taylor, who was 28, all died in the crash.
Relatives got together yesterday, sang, cried and prayed as a light breeze ripped across the lake a year after the tragedy.
Stefan Francis, a member of Music Needs Sound Production Company who organized the memorial, said the incident is still fresh in the minds and hearts of the victims’ relatives and friends.
“There are still a lot of unanswered questions,” Francis told a reporter from The Nassau Guardian.
“We still want to know what happened. What are the final results to why a whole plane dropped out of the sky?”
Many people wonder why it has taken the Bahamas government so long to detrmine the reason for the crash. Some wonder if corruption and incompetence, which plague nearly every aspect of Bahamian society, are playing a role in this matter as well.
“Someone needs to investigate which politicians have a financial interest in Acklins Blue Air Charter,” one observer stated.
“That might help determine why there is such a delay.”
