Six Perish in Ecuador Plane Crash
Photos by Guillermo Granja, Reuters.
An Ecuadorian military plane on a training exercise crashed into an apartment building in northern Quito on Thursday, killing its three crewmembers as well as three civilians on the ground, authorities said.
The crash of the Beechcraft propeller plane killed a major, a captain and a sergeant, as well as a woman who lived in the building and two other people “whose bodies were recovered inside” the residential complex, city counsellor Gonzalo Ortiz said.
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The total number of fatalities is seven. Five on board the aircraft (3 military and 2 civilians) and two on the ground. The civilians on board the aircraft were the pilots family.
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Plane was trying to land in heavy fog.