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Cuban defense minister dies
SANTIAGO - All the 21 people on a Chilean air force plane have been killed in a crash, the country's defense minister Andres Allamand told reporters on Saturday.
The plane, which carried eight members of the air force, five persons from a local public television, six staffers from a humanitarian organization and two officials from the culture ministry, was flying to a small island before it got lost Friday at about 17:48 local time (2148 GMT).
The Air Force of Chile confirmed the discovery of four bodies, two women and two men, floating in the waters near the Juan Fernandez Islands.
The bodies were located by fishermen in collaboration with the government's intense searching work by air and sea in the area where the device presumably crashed.
"The bodies will be identified on the continent unless the state of the bodies allow their identification with no doubt," he said.
The Chilean Navy announced start of the process "Gleaning deep underwater, Salvage and Recovery of bodies." This task includes the participation of eight divers and a submersible capsule.
The trip to the islands with some 629 inhabitants was to inaugurate reconstruction projects for the victims of the earthquake and the ensuing tsunami of February 27, 2010.
Locals search for the remains of a plane in a boat at sea near Juan Fernandez Islands, about 420 miles (676 km) off Chile's coast, September 3, 2011. |
Relatives of people aboard a plane that crashed near the Juan Fernandez islands, about 420 miles (676 km) off Chile's coast, wait at an airforce base in Santiago September 3, 2011. [Photo/Agencies] |
General Maximiliano Larraechea, secretary general of the Fuerza Aerea de Chile (FACH), speaks to the press at the airport in Santiago September 3, 2011. |
A child lights candles outside TVN national television in Santiago after the station said that five of its staff members, including popular presenter Felipe Camiroaga, were among the passengers in a plane which is presumed to have crashed near Juan Fernandez islands about 420 miles (670 km) off Chile's coast, September 2, 2011. [Photo/Agencies] |
Relatives of people on board a plane, which is presumed to have crashed near Juan Fernandez islands about 420 miles (670 km) off Chile's coast, gather at an airforce base in Santiago September 2, 2011 |