Cabañas, Zacapa
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Cabañas is a municipality
in the Guatemala
n department of Zacapa.
It is a small town of about 10,000, and income is mostly from farming.
The 2008 Aéreo Ruta Maya crash
of a Cessna 208
close to Cabañas killed 11 passengers and crew.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the Guatemala
Guatemala
Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...
n department of Zacapa.
It is a small town of about 10,000, and income is mostly from farming.
The 2008 Aéreo Ruta Maya crash
2008 Aéreo Ruta Maya crash
On August 24, 2008, an Aéreo Ruta Maya Cessna Caravan 208 carrying 10 American aid workers, two Guatemalan aid agency representatives, pilot and copilot en route from La Aurora International Airport, Guatemala City to El Estor, crashed 45 minutes after take off. The crash killed all occupants but...
of a Cessna 208
Cessna 208
The Cessna 208 Caravan is a single turboprop engine, fixed-gear short-haul regional airliner and utility aircraft built in the United States by Cessna. The airplane typically seats nine passengers, with a single person crew, although with a FAR Part 23 waiver, it can seat up to fourteen passengers...
close to Cabañas killed 11 passengers and crew.