Honduras plane crash: Passengers and crew pulled out alive after private jet breaks in half during landing

The passengers and crew of this private jet were all pulled out alive after it crashed and broke in half as it tried to land in Honduras.

Videos posted online showed local residents freeing the injured from the shattered fuselage of the Gulfstream jet while others sprayed it with hand-held extinguishers before fire crews arrived.

The plane, flying from Austin, Texas, skidded off the end of the runway at Toncontin international airport in the capital city Tegucigalpa.

There were reported to be six US passengers and three crew and they were all taken to hospital.

The country’s President Juan Orlando Hernandez confirmed on Twitter that the injured were in a stable condition.

The aviation agency said in a statement that the crash took place at 11.15am.

It added that everyone aboard was taken for medical attention and said airport operations were temporarily shut down while authorities checked to ensure conditions were safe.

Tegucigalpa's airport has long been notorious as one of the more difficult approaches in the hemisphere, surrounded by mountaintops and residential neighbourhoods.

Authorities asked drivers to avoid the area and said about 50,000 people in the surrounding neighbourhood lost power because the plane took down power lines.