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Article: Small plane carrying Americans reportedly crash-lands in rebel-held territory in southern Colombia
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- AP Worldstream
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- February 13, 2003
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Dateline: BOGOTA, Colombia
A U.S. government plane with five people on board crashed Thursday
in rebel territory in southern Colombia, and those aboard may have
been taken away by leftist rebels, a Colombian official said.
The Cessna had been headed from Bogota to the Florencia area, 235
miles (380 kilometers) to the south, when radio contact was lost eight
minutes before its scheduled landing, said a Colombian Civil Aviation
official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The official told The Associated Press that he had received reports
that Colombian army troops had located the plane but found no one
on board, and that it was feared they had been taken by rebels.
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