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Saturday, 26 March 2016

Four killed in western Japan plane crash

© Jiji Press/AFP | Police inspect a crash site covered with a blue sheet at Yao airport in Yao, Osaka prefecture, western Japan, on March 26, 2016, after a light aircraft crashed
TOKYO (AFP) - 
A small plane with four people on board crashed to the ground at a western Japanese airport on Saturday, leaving all four dead, an official and local media said.
Television footage showed the front and back of the fuselage as severely damaged, with the wing tips broken, and the crashed aircraft near a runway at Yao airport in Osaka.
A local fire department official said that four people on board were found dead following the accident without involving anyone on the ground.
Jiji Press and public broadcaster NHK said the Mooney M20c took off from Kobe airport and tried to land at Yao airport.
© 2016 AFP

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