A helicopter carrying seven people has plunged into a lake with two on board still missing.
Five businesspeople were pulled alive from the water after their hotel flight crashed into a volcanic lake.
Divers are still unable to reach the two men believed to be trapped in the wreck.
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The Airbus H130 hit the surface as it was approaching the lakeside helipad.
Footage showed the helicopter losing height in the rain before it crashed into the water below.
Seven people were on board when the aircraft dived into Lake Atitlán in Sololá, Guatemala, at about 12.45pm yesterday (8 Oct).
The five individuals rescued alive survived without injury, and were put up at the hotel they were heading for.
Police named the missing pair as Captain Jorge Rodolfo Maldonado, the pilot, and passenger Pablo José Polanco Agustín, and said both were still inside the submerged machine.
Those brought to safety were Andrea Lozano Ardón de Sittenfeld, Diego Díaz, César Enrique Morales Catú, Caterin Victoria Chay Carrillo and Sandra Natali Santizo Romero.
The Civil National Police said the group was made up of businesspeople from the capital on their way to a training session at Hotel Atitlán, and that the session was cancelled after the crash.
Volunteer firefighters and army frogmen searched for the pair until rain forced them to stop with a restart set for first light today.
Major Juan Muñoz Díaz, of the volunteer fire service, called off the operation so rescuers would not be put at risk in the downpour over Sololá.
Police said the wreck lay off a private beach on the San Buenaventura estate, in 200 to 300 metres of water, while the dive teams were only equipped for 100 metres.
Guatemala’s civil aviation authority said the chopper, registration TG-GUH, left La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City at 12.11pm.
It was bound for the hotel helipad on the northern shore of Lake Atitlán on a flight meant to last about 30 minutes.
Tracking data showed it had already flown twice that morning, leaving at 9.18am and again at 11.41am, before the third trip ended in the lake.
The army said a rapid call-out from its Atitlán naval station helped pull the five clear, as reported by Need To Know.
Then specialist divers were sent in after learning that two people were still inside the wreck.
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