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| Eight killed in Chile air crash | |
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| At least eight people have been killed after the small police plane they were travelling in crashed in the Chilean capital, Santiago. | At least eight people have been killed after the small police plane they were travelling in crashed in the Chilean capital, Santiago. |
| Another five people were injured in the crash which happened at a sports field in a populated part east of the city. | |
| Six of those killed were the passengers aboard the plane, while another two were killed on the ground. | Six of those killed were the passengers aboard the plane, while another two were killed on the ground. |
| More might have been killed if the pilot had not veered away from homes, police said. | More might have been killed if the pilot had not veered away from homes, police said. |
| "The pilot did not have enough time for an emergency landing, but still had time to take the plane away from the residential area," Police General Jorge Rojas said. | |
| The Cessna 210 was approaching Tobolaba airport when it went down at the field in the Penalolen district, the air force said. | |
| "The airplane appeared to lose power, made a sudden U-turn and fell down," a witness, Ernesto Munoz, told state television. "There was violent fire when it crashed." | |
| It is not clear what caused the crash. |