At least six killed in RP plane crash

Wed, 08 Dec 1999 | Source: AFP

MANILA (AFP): A small commercial plane with 17 people on board including a Japanese man and a British passport holder crashed in the northern Philippines early Tuesday, killing at least six people, the army said.

Army rescuers found the wreckage of the Czech-made Let 410- turboprop in the mountainous village of Didipio, near the town of Kasibu as night fell, Brigadier-General Rodolfo Garcia said over radio station DZRH.

"We have recovered six bodies," he said, adding he was not ruling out finding survivors.

However, the general said the soldiers who reached the crash site had told him the plane "burned down and apparently exploded."

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