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Military aircraft crashes into building killing 7 in Ecuador


By Barbara Cockburn

A military aircraft crashed into a building in the Ecuadorean capital Quito, killing at least seven people. The aircraft was on a training exercise when it slammed into the side of a four-floor building at about 1720 local time (2220 GMT) on Thursday 19 March.

According to news reports, soldiers and civilians aboard a Beechcraft aircraft are among the dead and two people on the ground.

The aircraft crashed in thick fog with smoke billowing from the building in a populated wealthy district in the north of the capital.




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