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Ecuador: at least two dead when a small plane crashes in a town in the west of the country

A small plane with two people on board crashed on Tuesday, November 26, on a busy street in La Libertad, in the province of Santa Elena, local authorities reported.

A small plane crashed on Tuesday, November 26, on a busy avenue in the town of La Libertad, on the western coast of Ecuador, causing the death of two people, the security and emergency management service reported.

The service received at 4:39 p.m. local time “the alert of a small plane falling on Eleodoro Solórzano Avenue,” a busy street in La Libertad in the province of Santa Elena (southwest), indicated on the social network X. The security service reported of two deaths in this accident.

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Local media reported that a man and a woman were traveling on the aircraft and added that a motorcyclist was injured by a fragment of the aircraft.

In images published on social networks, we can see a wrecked plane on the runway, next to a white car. The acronym ESMA (“Escuela Superior Militar de Aviación”, or Higher School of Military Aviation) is written on one part of the plane.

In 2022, a small plane had already crashed in a park in Guayaquil. Two occupants were killed and the pilot was seriously injured.

Author: AG with AFP
Source: BFM TV

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