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Chile Military Plane Disappears With 38 Aboard: Air Force

December 10, 2019 3:46 pm

A Chilean military plane with 38 people aboard has gone missing after it took off from the country’s south for a base in Antarctica and is presumed to have crashed, authorities have said.

Seventeen of those on board the C-130 aircraft were crew and the others were passengers, Chile’s air force said Monday.

The plane is believed to have crashed and “all national and international air and maritime means available in the area are continuing the search (for survivors) in the sector where communications were lost with the aircraft,” it added in a statement Tuesday.

The four-engine aircraft took off …

Official Cargo Plane With Eight Aboard Missing In DR Congo

October 11, 2019 2:53 pm

A cargo plane providing logistical assistance for a trip to Presiden Felix Tshisekedi went missing on Friday according to reports by DR Congo Civil Aviation Authority. The report said air traffic controllers lost contact with the Antonov 72 on Thursday, 59 minutes after it took off from the eastern city of Goma.

It said air traffic controllers lost contact with the Antonov 72 on Thursday, 59 minutes after it took off from the eastern city of Goma. The plane, carrying four crew and four civilian and military passengers, was “providing logistics” for the president, the authority’s director-general, Jean Mpunga, …