4 dead, dozens injured after jet misses runway

? A passenger plane overshot a runway and raced onto a busy street on landing in the Honduran capital Friday, killing the pilot, two passengers and a motorist on the ground. At least 65 people were injured.

The Grupo Taca Airbus A320 with 140 people on board was flying a Los Angeles-San Salvador-Tegucigalpa route and was scheduled to head next to Miami, Florida. It ended up with its nosed smashed against a roadside embankment and its fuselage buckled and broken in places.

Honduran authorities frantically hosed down cars trapped beneath the wreckage as thousands of gallons of fuel gushed from the jet.

Rescuers pried open part of the wreckage to get the pilot and co-pilot out, but the pilot didn’t survive, said Cesar Villalta, director of Honduras’ military hospital.

Passenger Harry Brautigam, a Nicaraguan who headed a regional development bank, died of heart failure. The body of a man trapped under the wreckage was believed to be a taxi driver.