Maya Island Regional personnel missing in San Pedro

Maria Antonia Plaza Gomez

 A female flight attendant of Maya Island Air Regional has gone missing and reports are that Maya Island personnel, along with Tourism Police, have been conducting a search for 37-year-old, Maria Antonia Plaza Gomez, Spanish national that went missing on Sunday, October 31.

    Reports are that she arrived in Belize City at 1pm on Friday, October 29 and told the rest of the flight crew that she would be spending the night on San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. She checked into Corona Del Mar hotel and went out for the evening.

    Reliable sources stated that she was last seen on Saturday morning as she told hotel employees that she was going to confirm her return flight for 2:00 p.m. at Maya Island Air; this happened at 10:30am. Plaza also went on a diving trip and was last seen at a local bar, and while she did confirm her return flight earlier in the morning she never made it on the plane.

    Her belongings, including her passport and money, were left in the hotel room and the Maya Island staff along with San Pedro Tourism Police have launched a search for Maria Antonia Plaza Gomez.

   If anyone has information on the whereabouts of Maria Antonia Plaza Gomez, kindly contact the San Pedro Police Department at 226-2022.

 Last camera footage of Maria leaving her hotel

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