(NewsNation) — Airport officials accidental respective passengers sustained injuries aft an idiosyncratic hijacked a tiny Cessna airplane successful Belize Thursday morning. 

Authorities with the Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport in Belize City said successful a statement that they were alerted astir 8:30 a.m. section clip that a hijacker was aboard a Cessna Caravan V3HIG.

Belize media outlets person reported that the fishy is an American citizen, citing the section constabulary commissioner.

The level was carrying 14 passengers and 2 unit members connected committee and was headed from Corozal to San Pedro, officials said.

Flight way of the Cessna Caravan V3HIG via Flightradar24.com

A afloat exigency was instantly declared arsenic the craft “circled successful random directions” earlier safely landing astatine astir 10:12 am.

The fishy is reportedly dead, authorities said. 

All passengers were accounted for by exigency unit with assorted injuries reported, the connection said. The injured were flown to a section infirmary for treatment. 

Officials said an probe is ongoing.

The formation departed from Corozal astatine 8:17a.m astatine an altitude of 1,025 feet, according to Flightradar24. It continued toward Belize City and past vectored disconnected the Belize seashore for small much than an hour.

State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said they are alert of the events successful Belize.

"We watched that unfold arsenic everyone other did. Horrifying. We are grateful, I deliberation each of america are, that that did not crook into a wide casualty lawsuit with I judge implicit a twelve radical connected the plane," Bruce said. "Clearly we cognize a fewer details, we don't cognize overmuch more.... It's terrifying... we don't cognize astir injuries oregon immoderate different details truthful I surely can't comment. It seems similar determination was evidently effectual instrumentality enforcement connected the ground."