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Families and loved ones have been left in a state of despair after a plane carrying 38 people went missing yesterday.
A plane goes missing in Chile (File photo)
Chile's air force said it lost radio contact with a transport plane
carrying 38 people on a flight Monday evening to the country's base in
Antarctica, according to a report by Dailymail.
It said the military had declared an alert and activated search and rescue teams.
The C-130 Hercules carried 17 crew members and 21 passengers, including three civilians.
The personnel were to check on a floating fuel supply line and other equipment at the Chilean base.
President Sebastián Piñera said via Twitter that he was with his
defense and interior ministers at the air force headquarters monitoring
developments.
The plane took off at 4.55pm from the southern city of Punta
Arenas, which is more than 1,860 miles from the capital of Santiago.
Contact was lost at 6.13pm the statement said.
Gen. Eduardo Mosqueira of the Fourth Air Brigade told local media
that a search was underway and a ship was in the area where the plane
should have been when contact was lost.
Mosqueira said the aircraft would have been about halfway to the
Antarctic base when it lost contact. No emergency signals had been
activated, he said.
He said the plane, whose pilot had extensive experience, had been scheduled to return Monday night.
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