Whether Gene Hackman or his wife Betsy died first affects their overall estate, according to a legal expert At least 12 people, including a popular musician, died when a small plane crashed into the sea while taking off from a Caribbean island off Honduras, officials said.

A Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson said that the phone records showed three calls were made on the morning of Feb. 12. Officials had said earlier she had probably died on Feb. 11.

New Mexico medical investigators estimated Arakawa died Feb. 11, but she appeared to have contacted the clinic the next day, a sheriff's official said.