All 22 dead in crash over Argentina’s Patagonia

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—A hospital director said there are no survivors in the wreckage of commercial plane carrying 22 over Argentina’s Patagonia.

Ismael Ali says rescuers have seen the bodies of all the people aboard the Sol Air Lines that went down Wednesday while en route from Neuquen near the Andes to Comodoro Rivadavia along the coast of Patagonia.

The air carrier had reported the plane carrying 19 passengers and three crew missing after it communicated an emergency.

Mayor Mabel Yahuar of the town of Los Menucos in Rio Negro province says there had been reports of an explosion in the sky, but they have no information on the fate of those on board.

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