At least 12 people including a popular musician died Monday when a small plane crashed into the Caribbean sea quickly after taking off from the Honduran island of Roatan, officials said. The Lanhsa Airlines plane departed at nightfall from Roatan, one of the central American country’s main tourist destinations, headed for the port of La Ceiba on the Honduran mainland, writes CBS NEWS.

The aircraft “made a sharp turn to the right of the runway and fell into the water”, civil aviation official Carlos Padilla said.

“The plane almost fell on us. I was fishing”, a fisherman, whose name was not given, told HCH television.

The fire department said 12 people were killed in the crash while five others were rescued.