One female, surnamed Amador-Segura (31), survived when a small single-engine aircraft carrying six Costa Ricans crashed on Monday in Pico Blanco mountain, in Salitral District, Santa Ana Canton, San José.

According to Alejandro Molina, leader of the Red Cross rescue effort, around 8:35 p.m. on Monday, one of the rescue teams was able to reach the Cedral area, which is located on the mountain high point where the aircraft crashed.

When the rescuers arrived, they discovered Amador alive. Unfortunately, the remainder of the passengers were found dead. The crew consisted of a male surnamed Miranda-Ramírez (the pilot), a female surnamed Mora-Chavarría (the co-pilot), two females surnamed Calleja-Montealegre, and Segura-Prendas, and a male surnamed Castillo.

At 5 a.m. on Tuesday, emergency personnel transported the survivor to the Red Cross post at the base of the hill after going through the mountain for roughly 15 hours to reach the accident scene. She was taken to the San Juan de Dios Public Hospital in San José.

The rescuers stay at the accident scene, making an effort to remove the bodies of the remaining five deceased.

According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the Cessna 206 with registration TI-GER crashed around 1 p.m. on the summit of a wooded mountain region, minutes before arriving at Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) in Alajuela Province.

The aircraft, also known as Stationair, is a single-engine general aviation plane with fixed landing gear widely employed in commercial air transportation.

The small plane took off from Tobias Bolanos Airport in Pavas Canton, San José, at 6:58 a.m. toward Barra de Colorado Airport in Limón Province.

After the passengers boarded, the aircraft took off from Limón Airport at 11:55 a.m. for the return flight to San José. The predicted arrival time was approximately 12:45 p.m.

Due to severe weather, the airport closed the landing strip and directed flights to land at SJO.

The pilot then attempted to restore the path to SJO, but the aircraft lost contact with the SJO control towers around 12:35 p.m.

Authorities issued a warning of a possible accident, allowing a National Air Surveillance Service plane to conduct fly patrols in the area where the radar had previously recorded the aircraft's position.

After identifying the plane on the highest point of the Pico Blanco mountain, air rescue teams collaborated with Red Cross and Fire Department rescuers to reach the accident scene by land.

The rescue squad included 70 rescuers, five Red Cross units, Fire Department units, and a K-9 unit of dogs trained to search for victims.

At 8:35 p.m., rescuers arrived at the accident scene and found Amador, the sole surviving passenger, as well as the bodies of the five victims.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation will likely launch an ongoing inquiry to ascertain the cause of the aircraft accident.

Recently, a light aircraft pilot identified as Panagua-Hernandez died after his small plane crashed in Puntarenas Province.