Brazil, October 30: A Brazilian military transport plane has disappeared while flying over the Amazon with 11 people on board, officials say.
Two Black Hawk helicopters and a C-105 Amazonas plane are searching for the single-propeller Cessna C-98 Caravan, the air force said in a Thursday statement.
A spokesman for the National Health Foundation told AFP that the plane was carrying nine public health workers and the two military pilots.
The air force said the missing plane took of from Cruzeiro do Sul at 10:15 a.m. local time (0015 GMT), and was expected to land in Tabatinga at 12:15 a.m. local time (0215 GMT).
Brazil’s Amazon, an area 15 times the size of Germany, has been the scene of numerous air tragedies.
In one of the recent incidents, an EMB 110 Bandeirante aircraft crashed into a tributary of the Amazon River in February, leaving all 24 passengers aboard killed.
——Agencies