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Fourteen hours after the contact was lost with the plane carrying the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Gneiting and three other people, the hopes of finding them alive have disappeared. "The ship was located eight kilometers from the airport of Ayolas, totally disintegrated, immersed in the water." Survivors are excluded, "said Joaquín Roa, head of the National Emergency Secretariat of Paraguay and expressed his condolences to the families.
In addition to Gneiting, Vicente Ramírez, Deputy Minister of Livestock The same tragic fate had the pilot of the ship, Gerardo Lopez, who had been deputy minister of the 39, Agriculture, and co-pilot Luis Charotti
Gneiting had traveled aboard the plane, model Baron BE58, to San Ignacio Misiones to oversee vaccination work against foot-and-mouth disease, and took the exit for to go to Carmen del Paraná and visit his mother.
Germán Gneiting, mayor of Carmen del Paraná and brother of the deceased, said that his mother was suffering from a terminal illness and that the minister n & # Had been able to visit him before. ent, took the opportunity to share a few hours with her.
After the visit, Gneiting went to the airport of Ayolas to take the flight back to Asunción, but unfortunately, a few minutes before 18:30 Wednesday, the plane lost contact with the control tower.
The plane was running out for hours, until it was found by rescue helicopters on Thursday in a swampy area near the border with Argentina. Shortly before the discovery, at 4:00 yesterday, the minister's mother, Irene Dachtiar, died. She has not heard of the accident
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Captain Roque González, who led the rescue operations, said the maneuvers were complicated because the plane fell flat, which made the body fall water "Although the ship and the bodies were disintegrated, they are easily recognizable because there are wallets, rings and chains, among other personal items ", he said. He was an influential politician of the Itapúa Department, one of Paraguay's main soybean producing areas, where he was governor. He has also been a Member of Parliament for the period 2008-2013.
The presidency decreed three days of mourning for the plane crash, while the Senate adjourned its regular Thursday session and paid tribute to the minister and his companions. "This accident is mourning for all our people and all Paraguayan families," said President-elect Mario Abdo Benítez, who will take up his duties on August 15.
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– The National Emergency Secretariat reported that the bodies were transported by helicopter to Asunción's judicial morgue and, after a court proceeding, they will be handed over to their families.
– Until now he does not know the cause of the accident. For this reason, the authorities have commissioned an expert report in the accident area.
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