SANTIAGO, Dec 10 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – A Chilean military aircraft, disappeared from radar on Monday, the Chilean Air Force said, in a statement.
The plane was carrying 38 people on board – 17 crew members and 21 passengers.
Later in the day, the Navy confirmed the plane had crashed.
The aircraft was travelling from the Chabunco Air Base, in the city of Punta Arenas, in southern Chile, to the President Eduardo Frei Montalva Antarctica Air Base. It was transporting personnel to operate an oil pipeline supplying fuel to the base.
The air force reports, this is the last point of contact of the missing military plane in southern Chile to Antarctica.– NNN-PRENSA LATINA
