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Apr 1, 06, 9:15 am
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP)- A plane carrying 19 people crashed in a mountainous region outside Rio de Janeiro, killing all aboard, civil defense officials said Saturday.
The small LET 410 twin-engine plane belonging to the local Team airline went missing Friday night about 20 minutes after leaving the city of Macae, 110 miles east of Rio de Janeiro, said Roni Alberto de Azevedo, a spokesman with the Rio de Janeiro State Civil Defense Department.
Rescue workers found the plane's wreckage in Saquarema, some 60 miles east of Rio, nearly 10 hours after it disappeared from radar screens. Authorities said rescuers had to walk nearly three hours to get the remote area.
The aircraft carrying 17 passengers and two crew members was due to land Friday evening in Rio after a short domestic flight. There were no survivors, airline director David Farias said.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/04/01/brazil.plane.crash.ap/index.html
The small LET 410 twin-engine plane belonging to the local Team airline went missing Friday night about 20 minutes after leaving the city of Macae, 110 miles east of Rio de Janeiro, said Roni Alberto de Azevedo, a spokesman with the Rio de Janeiro State Civil Defense Department.
Rescue workers found the plane's wreckage in Saquarema, some 60 miles east of Rio, nearly 10 hours after it disappeared from radar screens. Authorities said rescuers had to walk nearly three hours to get the remote area.
The aircraft carrying 17 passengers and two crew members was due to land Friday evening in Rio after a short domestic flight. There were no survivors, airline director David Farias said.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/04/01/brazil.plane.crash.ap/index.html