ALGIERS, Aug 6: Four people, including a Chilean national and two civil defence officers, died Tuesday in a plane crash near northern Algeria's coastal city of Jijel, authorities said.
The national civil defence service said in a statement that the plane was a reconnaissance aircraft made by the Czech company Zlin, and had crashed at an airport.
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"Following the crash of a Civil Protection 'Zlin' reconnaissance and identification aircraft today at Ferhat Abbas Airport in Jijel, during a training mission, four people were killed while performing their professional duty," the statement said.
The service did not identify the Chilean man, saying only that he was an instructor pilot.
It also declined to name the fourth casualty, but said he was an instructor from the Algerian aviation APTATA.
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