Ambassador Young safe in Grand Bahama
Ambassador Andrew Young will remain in Grand Bahama until Wednesday to complete his speaking engagements at the 2014 Global Leadership Forum, which was organized by prominent Bahamian minister Myles Munroe, who was killed in a plane crash Sunday.
In an exclusive interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Young’s wife, Carolyn Young denied rumors that her husband was supposed to have been on the plane and canceled at the last minute because he had a bad feeling about it.
“He was not supposed to be flying with Myles Munroe,” Carolyn Young said Monday morning. “The rumor started when people said that they knew he was doing the conference and couldn’t reach him or me. So they put two and two together and got nine. He never said he would be on Myles Munroe’s plane. People just assumed that.”
Government officials in the Bahamas says the small plane carrying Munroe, the leader of Bahamas Faith Ministries, and eight other people crashed on approach to the island of Grand Bahama killing all nine people on board.
The Lear 36 Executive Jet had taken off from the Bahamian capital of Nassau and crashed while attempting to land around 5 p.m. local time in Freeport, according to a statement from the Ministry of Transport and Aviation.
“The Department of Civil Aviation has been advised unofficially that the aircraft was destroyed and that there were no survivors,” the ministry said.
Names of the victims were not immediately available.
The cause of the crash has not yet been determined though there had been heavy rain across the region.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
