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Twin-engine turboprop plane crashed in Brazil

Rio Branco, Brazil - Twenty-three of the 31people on board died

A Rico Linhas Aereas air taxi crashed about 7 pm (Brazilian time) on Friday as it prepared to land in heavy rain and wind in the airport of Rio Branco, capital of northwest Acre state, in Brazil. Twenty-three of the 31 people on board were killed in the crash, including Congressman Ildefonso Cordeiro of the centrist Brazilian Social Democratic Party. The aircraft, an Embraer 120ER Brasilia, left the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 32806
Rome, Italy, 09/02/2002 10:08
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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