Human remains found in area where Chilean air force plane went missing
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Santiago, Dec 11 (EFE).- Human remains have been found near the area where an Antarctica-bound Chilean military plane with 38 people on board recently disappeared, a regional official told EFE Wednesday.
The announcement came shortly after the Chilean Air Force (FACh) reported finding sponge remains from the aircraft floating in the sea at the same location, the Drake Passage that separates South America from Antarctica, whose waters are considered some of the most turbulent on the planet.
"Today in the afternoon, the Air Force gave us some news that has left us dismayed: it was about finding bodies in the Drake Passage and also part of the fuselage that corresponds to the damaged plane," Jose Fernandez Dübrock, the administrative head of Chile's southern Magallanes Region, told EFE.
SOUND BITES: JOSE FERNANDEZ, THE ADMINISTRATIVE HEAD OF CHILE'S SOUTHERN MAGALLANES REGION (IN SPANISH - SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH).
The announcement came shortly after the Chilean Air Force (FACh) reported finding sponge remains from the aircraft floating in the sea at the same location, the Drake Passage that separates South America from Antarctica, whose waters are considered some of the most turbulent on the planet.
"Today in the afternoon, the Air Force gave us some news that has left us dismayed: it was about finding bodies in the Drake Passage and also part of the fuselage that corresponds to the damaged plane," Jose Fernandez Dübrock, the administrative head of Chile's southern Magallanes Region, told EFE.
SOUND BITES: JOSE FERNANDEZ, THE ADMINISTRATIVE HEAD OF CHILE'S SOUTHERN MAGALLANES REGION (IN SPANISH - SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH).