Survivors unlikely in Chile crash
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September 4, 2011, Sunday
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CHILEAN rescuers and fishermen found four bodies and aircraft wreckage yesterday after an air force plane with 21 people aboard lost contact off the remote Juan Fernandez islands, officials said.
Hopes dimmed of finding survivors from Friday's crash, one of the worst air crashes in the country in recent years.
"It seems like a violent accident that didn't leave anyone alive," Maximiliano Larraechea, secretary general of the Chilean air force, said. "But we're not losing hope and we'll continue searching."
Fishermen and rescuers combing the waters around the Pacific islands found the bodies of two men and two women, he added.
The CASA 212 military plane tried twice to land before it went missing as heavy winds and sporadic rains hit the area, an official said.
Among the passengers were five TVN national television staff, including well-known presenter Felipe Camiroaga, who were planning to film a report about reconstruction on the islands after last year's earthquake and tsunami.
Hopes dimmed of finding survivors from Friday's crash, one of the worst air crashes in the country in recent years.
"It seems like a violent accident that didn't leave anyone alive," Maximiliano Larraechea, secretary general of the Chilean air force, said. "But we're not losing hope and we'll continue searching."
Fishermen and rescuers combing the waters around the Pacific islands found the bodies of two men and two women, he added.
The CASA 212 military plane tried twice to land before it went missing as heavy winds and sporadic rains hit the area, an official said.
Among the passengers were five TVN national television staff, including well-known presenter Felipe Camiroaga, who were planning to film a report about reconstruction on the islands after last year's earthquake and tsunami.
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