2026年7月13日 / 美国东部时间下午5:35 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
深受民众喜爱的巴哈马音乐组合“池塘乐队”（Da Pond Band）的幸存成员日前发声，缅怀在巴哈马一起小型飞机坠毁事故中遇难的友人与乐队伙伴。这架由火烈鸟航空（Flamingo Air）运营的小型飞机于周五坠毁，机上10人全部遇难。
这支以活力四射的加勒比音乐闻名的池塘乐队，和一名知名DJ原本计划在安德罗斯岛的独立日庆祝活动中演出。巴哈马飞机事故调查局表示，这趟通常耗时不到20分钟的航班从拿骚的林登·平德林国际机场起飞，前往北安德罗斯的圣安德罗斯时，在北安德罗斯地区坠毁。
当天早些时候，池塘乐队的歌手舍妮娅·罗伯茨已经抵达安德罗斯岛，等待乐队其他成员的到来。罗伯茨表示，他们组合共有五名成员在此次事故中遇难。
“他们是我朝夕相伴的人，”罗伯茨在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时说道，“他们是我的朋友，我的知己。我当时还在等他们。”
她说自己当天早上7点左右搭乘同一架飞机、由同一名飞行员驾驶从拿骚飞抵此地。
“你能看出来那是架老旧飞机，”罗伯茨说，“但我们飞行过程中没遇到任何问题。”
巴哈马调查人员正在调查坠毁原因。火烈鸟航空在同一天发生两起紧急事件后暂停了所有航班。据巴哈马官员透露，当天早些时候，该航空公司的另一架飞机在拿骚降落后起火，这起事故未造成人员伤亡。
“我至今仍不敢相信他们已经离世，实在无法接受，”另一名幸存的乐队成员沙妮斯·米勒说道，“他们就是我的家人，我从没想过这种事会发生在他们身上。”
米勒最后一次和遇难的乐队成员见面是在上周五，当时他们一起在拿骚主持了每周一次的演出。
“那是最火爆的演出场地，每个巴哈马人都会去，国际游客也专门坐飞机赶来观看池塘乐队的表演，”米勒告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，“我们当时玩得特别开心，第二场演出结束后，他们还说要去安德罗斯岛，兴奋得不行。”
池塘乐队已确认遇难的乐队成员为乔瓦尼·麦肯齐、马特奥·温德、拉沙德·斯托尔、托尼克·吉洛和特拉维斯·约翰逊。据乐队透露，同样在这架航班上的还有梅尔文·亨菲尔德，也就是知名DJ“新鲜DJ”。
这些广受欢迎的音乐人离世，给巴哈马的娱乐行业带来了沉重打击。
“他们对太多人而言意义非凡，整个国家都陷入了悲痛，”经常和池塘乐队合作的知名巴哈马歌手安妮什卡·刘易斯说道，“我们前一天还在排演到凌晨1点左右，我最后跟他们说，我爱你们，感谢你们投入那么多时间、心血和精力，我已经等不及周六和你们见面了。”
航班上还有三名非演艺人员乘客，官员尚未公布他们的姓名。
阿纳斯塔西娅·罗尔告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，她相信自己16岁的儿子小尼古拉斯·奥利弗就在周五遇难的人员当中。她说，儿子是临时被加到这趟航班上的。
罗尔表示，儿子原本很期待去看望家人并参加这场音乐节。他原本当天早些时候和父亲一起准备搭乘渡轮，但赶到时已经太晚了。于是父亲前往机场，看看能不能帮儿子搭上另一班飞机。
他原本预计中午12点30分左右抵达，但随着一架又一架飞机降落在圣安德罗斯机场，罗尔始终没能找到儿子。几个小时过去了。
“问题是，尼古拉斯在哪？他失踪了吗？”罗尔说道，“随着时间流逝，我不得不接受一个事实：我的儿子肯定就在那架失事飞机上。”
据池塘乐队的歌手罗伯茨透露，这架火烈鸟航空的航班原本计划起飞，但飞行员在停机坪上等待补满座位，足足等了两个小时。当时罗伯茨正和遇难的乐队核心成员之一麦肯齐互发短信。
“他跟我说他们正准备起飞，我就发消息问他，怎么花了这么久？出什么事了？他说飞行员……正试着找其他人来填满这架飞机，”罗伯茨告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
据哥伦比亚广播公司新闻获得的WhatsApp聊天记录截图显示，麦肯齐在周五中午12点01分写道，飞行员“正等着更多人来填满这架飞机”。
一位熟悉此事的巴哈马航空消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，在巴哈马，如果客户是按座位付费而非包机，那么等待航班满员后再起飞是常见做法。
罗伯茨表示，这趟航班原本应该是专为音乐节表演者包下的包机。
“原本不该出现这种情况的，因为这是包机，”罗伯茨说。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系火烈鸟航空请其置评。
通过电话联系该航空公司老板时，他告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻“无可奉告”。
据飞行记录显示，这架航班大约在中午12点30分起飞，18分钟后在机场附近的一片林区坠毁。
Bahamian music group “still shocked” after bandmates killed in small plane crash
July 13, 2026 / 5:35 PM EDT / CBS News
Surviving members of the beloved Bahamian musical group Da Pond Band are speaking out about their friends and bandmates who were killed when a small plane operated by Flamingo Air crashed in the Bahamas on Friday, killing all 10 people on board.
Da Pond Band, known for their lively Caribbean music, and a popular DJ were all set to perform at an Independence Day celebration on Andros Island. A flight that typically takes under 20 minutes, the plane had left Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau and was en route to San Andros when it crashed in North Andros, the Bahamian Aircraft Accident Investigation Authority said.
Earlier in the day, Shenia Roberts, a vocalist for Da Pond Band, had already arrived on Andros Island and was waiting for the rest of the band to arrive. Roberts said five members of their group were killed in the crash.
“They were the people that I talked to in the morning, in the night,” Roberts told CBS News. “They were my friends, my confidants. And I was waiting on them.”
She said she flew in from Nassau on the same plane, flown by the same pilot, at around 7 a.m.
“You could tell it was an old plane,” Roberts said. ” But we didn’t have any issues.”
Bahamian investigators are looking into what led to the crash. Flamingo Air suspended all flights after two emergency incidents happened on the same day. Earlier in the day, the airline had a separate plane catch fire after landing in Nassau, according to Bahamian officials. There were no casualties in that incident.
“I’m still shocked that they’re gone. I can’t believe it,” said Shaniese Miller, another surviving band member. “They’re my family and I never expected that to happen.”
Miller was last with the band members who died the previous Friday at a weekly performance they host in Nassau.
“It’s the hottest spot, every Bahamian is there. International people fly over just to come to see Da Pond,” Miller told CBS News. “We were having so much fun, and after the second set, we were, they were just saying how they were so excited to go to Andros.”
The band members who died were identified by Da Pond Band as Giovanni McKenzie, Mateo Winder, Rashad Storr, Tonique Gilot and Travis Johnson. Melvin Henfield, also known as DJ Fresh, was also on the flight, according to the band.
The loss of these popular music figures has hit the entertainment industry in the Bahamas hard.
“They meant so much to so many people, this country is wrecked,” said Anishka Lewis, a popular Bahamian singer who often performed with Da Pond Band. “The last thing I said to them because we were in rehearsals till about 1 a.m. I told them, I say, listen, I love and appreciate y’all, man. Thank y’all for putting in the time and effort and energy into it, and I can’t wait to see y’all on Saturday.”
Three other passengers who were not performers were on the flight. Officials have not yet released their names.
Anasthasia Rolle told CBS News she believes her 16-year-old son, Nicholas Oliver Jr., is among those who were killed Friday. She said she believes he was added to the flight at the last minute.
Rolle said her son was excited to visit family and attend the festival. He was set to take a ferry earlier in the day with his father but they got there too late, she said. The father then went to the airport to see if he could get him on a plane.
He was set to arrive around 12:30 p.m., but as planes kept arriving in San Andros, Rolle couldn’t find her son. Hours passed.
“The question was, where is Nicholas? Did he disappear?” Rolle said. “As the time passed, I had to come to realization that my son was definitely on that plane.”
The pilot on the Flamingo Air flight waited on the tarmac to fill more seats for two hours after the plane was set to initially depart, according to Roberts, the vocalist for Da Pond Band, who said she was texting with McKenzie, one of the leaders of the band who died in the crash.
“He told me that they were getting ready to leave, I reached out and I asked him, so why are you taking so long? What happened? He said the pilot … He’s trying to find other people to fill the plane up,” Roberts told CBS News.
McKenzie wrote at 12:01 p.m. on Friday that the pilot was “waiting round for more people to full up the plane,” according to a screenshot of the text exchange on WhatsApp that was obtained by CBS News.
A Bahamian aviation source familiar with the matter told CBS News it can be a common practice in the Bahamas to wait until the plane is full before departing if the client is paying per seat, rather than chartering the entire plane.
The flight was supposed to be a charter flight exclusive to the performers for the festival, according to Roberts.
“That should have not been the situation, because it was a chartered plane,” Roberts said.
CBS News has reached out to Flamingo Air for comment.
When reached by phone, the owner of the airline told CBS News he had “no comment.”
The flight departed around 12:30 p.m., according to flight records. It crashed in a wooded area near the airport 18 minutes later.
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