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Haiti Plane Crash Kills 21

A commuter plane exploded and crashed after take-off on Sunday from Haiti's northern city of Cap-Haitien, killing all 21 aboard, news reports said.

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A commuter plane exploded and crashed after take-off on Sunday from Haiti's northern city of Cap-Haitien, killing all 21 aboard, news reports said.

Five minutes after it took off on Sunday afternoon, witnesses saw smoke billowing from the twin-propeller plane which sent distress signals to the Cap-Haitien control tower, Radio Maxima reported.

There was an explosion and crash, witnesses told the radio station's director Jean-Robert Lalane, who spoke to The Associated Press by telephone from the scene. It was unclear whether the explosion came before or after the crash, he said.

He added that thousands of people had gathered around the fuming wreckage at Lory, about 5 km west of the city, in a sugarcane field strewn with the charred bodies of the 19 passengers, pilot and co-pilot.

The 19-passenger Czech-made Let L-410, which was on its way to Port-de-Paix, belonged to Tropical Airways, a Haitian company that runs daily flights to and from major Haitian cities, news reports said. --

Source: Agencies

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