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Brazil: Six dead, including education minister, in plane crash
May 14, 2010, 15:48 GMT
Sao Paulo - Six people died, including a provincial education minister, when their small plane crashed in the Brazilian city of Manaus shortly after taking off, state officials said.
Education Minister Cinthia Regia Gomes of the Amazonas state, 46, as well as four ministry employees and the pilot, died when the plane burst in flame after the crash just minutes after takeoff.
The plane had been headed to Maues, 280 kilometres distant.
The pilot had more than 20 years experience, according to the plane operator Cleiton Taxi Aereo.
The pilot appeared to have been trying to make an emergency landing but attempted to avoid the residential neighbourhoods of Zumbi. The government of the state of Amazonas ordered three days of official mourning.
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