Let's face it: TGU was overdue for this and I hope that they finally take the right consquences and improve the security. The next crash will be more fatal.[/QUOTE]

Looks like flights will now operate from a nearby military base:

http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/world/...ash/index.html

Honduran air officials said they would close the terminal to large jets and permanently transfer those flights to the former military airfield at Palmerola.

Larger jets will now operate out of the Palmerola airport, also known as the Soto Cano base, about 30 miles north of the capital.

Used by the United States during the Central American civil wars of the 1980s, Palmerola has the best runway in the country at 8,850 feet long and 165 feet wide.

There have been calls for years to replace the aging Toncontin airport, which is considered to be one of the world's more dangerous international airports.

The airport was built in 1948 with a runway less than 5,300 feet long - shorter than that of a small field such as Municipal Airport in Goldsboro, North Carolina

The altitude of some 3,300 feet forces pilots to use more runway on landings and takeoffs than they would at sea level.

In 1997, a U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo plane overshot the runway at Toncontin and rolled 200 yards before bursting into flames on a major boulevard, killing three people aboard.