Ten U.S. citizens and two Costa Rican crew members died Dec. 31 when the small plane they had just boarded crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff.
The aircraft, a single-propeller Cessna 208 Caravan, went down in a mountainous area near the Pacific coastal beach town of Punta Islita in the northwestern province of Guanacaste
The light aircraft was heading from the capital to to the northwestern coastal town of Tamarindo when it apparently lost control and came down in a river ravine minutes after takeoff.
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