{"id":54701,"date":"2019-12-14T12:57:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T04:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54701"},"modified":"2019-12-14T12:57:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T04:57:34","slug":"chile-starts-identifying-remains-of-plane-crash-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54701","title":{"rendered":"Chile starts identifying remains of plane crash victims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/newsonair.nic.in\/writereaddata\/News_Pictures\/INT\/2019\/Dec\/NPIC-2019121494341.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PUNTA ARENAS (Chile), Dec 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; \u00a0Remains of people killed in a military plane crash that claimed 38 lives were flown Friday to a military base in Chile for identification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remains were brought in aboard a Hercules C-130 plane &#8211;\u00a0just like the one that went down Monday off the southern tip of South America &#8211;\u00a0and turned over to the local coroner&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 39 relatives of 11 crash victims flew Friday from the capital Santiago to Punta Arenas, where the base is located, to provide DNA samples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirty-eight people &#8211; 21 passengers and 17 crew &#8211; were on the plane headed to a base across the Drake Passage in the Antarctic. That rough waterway links the Atlantic and Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities say they have not ruled out anything as to the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plane made no emergency signal prior to its disappearance, indicating the circumstances of the accident were likely abrupt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Air Force has said the plane&#8217;s maintenance record was in order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also said it will investigate a Whatsapp audio message sent by a passenger to relatives that allegedly said the plane was having electrical problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Debris from the plane was located in a 30 square kilometres area in the Drake Passage, a storm-tossed body of water south of Cape Horn. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUNTA ARENAS (Chile), Dec 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; \u00a0Remains of people killed in a military plane crash that claimed 38 lives were flown Friday to a military base in Chile for identification. The remains were brought in aboard a Hercules C-130 plane &#8211;\u00a0just like the one that went down Monday off the southern tip of South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54701"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}