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Chilean Crash Kills 4

What: single-engine Mooney plane en route from La Serena to Santiago.
Where: 474 km north of the Chilean capital of Santiago
When: Jan 11, 2010
Who: 4 fatalities (pilot and 3 businessmen)
Why: The light plane crashed for unknown reasons. A beacon initially led searchers to Chicurea but the wreckage was found by Chile’s Air Force Search and Rescue (two Chilean air force planes and a helicopter) in La Cachimba valley, 22 km from La Serena.

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