Date Posted: December 04, 2008.

(The Daily Herald) PUERTO RICO--Anguillan Ken Webster is believed to have perished when the plane he was piloting slammed into the side of Puerto Rico’s El Yunque mountain Wednesday. He operated a private charter company out of St. Croix.

He was taking two American tourists from Tortola in the British Virgin Islands and was heading to San Juan, when the twin-engine plane went down into a fog-shrouded forest east of Puerto Rico's capital.

The plane was “totally destroyed,” Puerto Rican Police Agent Carmen Quinones told the Associated Press. “I don't think there are any survivors.” Although a team of machete-wielding rescuers, whose progress was slowed by rain, fog, dense woods and soggy underbrush, had to turn back after a five-hour hike because a steep mountain blocked their passage, family members are still hoping for some good news. Search teams said they found bits of scattered wreckage, but no survivors.

Webster was the son of Cleopatra Webster-Scott and stepson of Ronald Webster of Anguilla. He was the grandson of the late Gaston Scot of St. Maarten. He was related to the Scots and Clem Labega and family, amongst others. He was well known to the staff of Princess Juliana International Airport.