10 tourists, 2 locals killed in Costa Rica plane crash
San José : Costa Rican investigators are looking into what caused a charter aircraft to crash in woods in the country’s northwest soon after taking off, killing the 10 US citizens and two local crew members on board.
The aircraft, a single-propeller Cessna 208 Caravan belonging to the Nature Air domestic airline, came down in a mountainous area near the Pacific coastal beach town of Punta Islita in the country’s Guanacaste peninsula, the spokesman, Carlos Hidalgo, said on his Facebook page.
“It is a private plane with 10 foreign passengers and two local crew members,” a separate security ministry statement said.
Hidalgo published images of the crash site, showing flaming wreckage strewn across the terrain.
All the bodies were burned, Hidalgo told national television station Channel 7.
“I have the deaths of the 12 occupants confirmed,” the head of Costa Rica’s civil aviation agency, Enio Cubillo, told La Nacion newspaper.
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