Missing Plane Found, No Survivors by Magdalena Rosova

A plane with mining executives from Australia, France, Britain and United States on board crashed in a dense forest in west Africa. The plane flew from Yaounde, capital of Cameroon, to Yangadou in northwest Congo-Brazzaville. Communications Minister of Cameroon, Issa Thiroma Bakary, said the plane got lost during a flight over a jungle. There were eleven people on board, 9 passengers and two crew members. The aircraft was operated by company Aero-Service based in Congo-Brazzaville and it was chartered by Cam Iron, which is the Cameroon subsidiary of Sundance Resources, an iron ore mining firm from Australia. The plane left Yaounde international airport on Saturday June 19 at 9:13 and it was supposed to arrive to Yangadou at 10:20 am. But the last contact with the plane took place at 9:51. The executives were in Yaounde because of their ordinary meeting of all directors of Cam Iron. Cameroon immediately started a search for the plane, it sent a C-130 Hercules and smaller Pipe! r and Dornier aircraft to search for it. Cameroon has also asked local officials, people and firms along the flight path of the missing plane to give any clues that might help. Paul Biya, President of Cameroon, set up a crisis panel which was coordinating the search. Brazzaville has also sent its plane help searching. Libreville joined with its helicopter and Gabon was helping in the search as well. Unfortunately, they found only the wreckage of the plane in the forest of the Republic of Congo. There were no survivors. The search team now have to recover the black box to find out what caused the crash.

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