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MEXICO CITY (APT) .- The plane in which traveled the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of Paraguay, Luis Gneiting, and three other people was without the nearby survivors from the airport of Ayolas where Wednesday night in Asunción
The Special Unit for Search and Rescue of the Voluntary Fire Service reported that it was not necessary There were no survivors after the accident.
A few hours earlier, specialized staff were looking for potential survivors among the remains of the accident. "Because of the scene, I think that there is less and less chance of surviving," Ruben Aguilar, director of the Asunción International Airport, told EFE. 19659005] Aguilar said that the body of one of the occupants of the aircraft has already been sighted, that he was seriously damaged by the impact and was half-sunk in an area of estuaries. eight kilometers from the airport of Ayolas, from where he left Wednesday afternoon.
In the aircraft, besides the Gneiting, Deputy Minister of Livestock, Vicente Ramírez; the former Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Gerardo López, who was also the pilot, and the officer of the Ministry and co-pilot Luis Charotti
López, who was retired , had been pilot of the plane, owned by the Ministry of Agriculture since his retirement.
Aguilar added that the plane caught fire when it crashed, and that the remains will take hours to be extracted to conduct the investigation that will resolve the causes of the aircraft. 39; accident.
The aircraft was located in the air. This morning, in the light of day, after a night of failed ground rescue, which was joined by civilians who followed the region on horseback or by boat.
The plane, a BE58 Baron model, left Ayolas, about 300 kilometers from Asunción, Wednesday afternoon and there was no communication again
Gneiting, a veteran Colorado Party politician in power, was appointed last May Institute of Agriculture and Husbandry of the Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes
Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray Caso, expressed his condolences on his official Twitter account for the passing of the Paraguayan Minister of Agriculture, Luis Gneiting, after an accident in the plane where he was traveling.
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