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Searchers find plane debris on mountain in Puerto Rico
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Published: December 4, 2008
RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico -- Search teams negotiated a muddy, densely-wooded mountainside yesterday to find a small plane with three people on board -- two of them unidentified American tourists -- that crashed east of Puerto Rico's capital.
The twin-engine Rockwell International 690B crashed into El Yunque mountain and was "totally destroyed," Police Agent Carmen Quinones said. "I don't think there are any survivors."
Rescuers, whose progress was slowed by rain, fog, dense woods and wet underbrush, had to turn back after five hours because a steep mountain blocked their way. They said they found bits of scattered wreckage but no survivors.
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