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Mensaje de Werkur737 - Enviado el 11 Aug 1:09 |
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A passenger aircraft has crashed in French Polynesia, killing at least 14 people, including two australians, with another six still missing.
Air Moorea Twin Otter aircraft with 19 passengers and a pilot on board crashed after taking off from Temae airport in Moorea Island, en route to the local capital Papeete, ashort flight away.
Earlier reports said the plane had been coming from Papeete.
Police said 14 bodies had been recovered including that of the pilot but no survivers had been found yet. The search for the remaining passengers was continuing. All but two of the victims were french.
A spokeswoman for Air Moorea said all 20 people aboard the aircraft were feared killed.
The plane, a De Havilland Twin Otter aircraft, veered to the right after take off for the short flight to the main island of Tahiti and crashed into the ocean at around 12:15 pm local time.
Aviation authorities said weather conditions were clear.
The plane came down one mile from the coast near fishermen, who tried to help those on board.
authorities in Papeete said the victims included two tourists and two european officials posted to the region, who local media said had been visiting a water purification plant.
No New Zealanders are believed to be among the dead.
The bodies of all the victims found so far have been taken by french navy personnel ro a mortuary. Air Moorea, a subsidiary of domestic airline Air Tahiti, said it had never had an accident in its 35 year history.
Moorea is one of around 118 islands scattered across an area the size of Europe in the South Pacific that make up France's overseas territory of French Polynesia. the destination is popular with foreign tourists and the crashed occured in tourists high season.
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