A private jet of the Argentinian Sol Company crashed Wednesday night in in a desert region of Patagonia (South), killing 22 people - 19 passengers and three crew members - has announced an official source.
"We have not found any living person. No survivors. Everything is charred in thousands of pieces, " said Ismael Ali, director of the hospital in Los Menucos, who participated in the rescue operation.
Sol company said in a statement that Flight 5428 disappeared from radar screens while on the route "Cordoba, Mendoza, Neuquen, Comodoro Rivadavia" in southern Argentina.
The Company spokesman, Horacio Farre, confirmed that there are no survivors.
The plane was providing the connexion between the cities of Neuquen and Comodoro Rivadavia, at 1,800 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires.
An eyewitness said he saw a fireball fall in this desert region of Los Menucos, declared the mayor of the city, Isabel Yahuar.
The aircraft is a bimotor Saab 340.
The disaster area is located south of the tourist town of San Carlos de Bariloche in the Andes.
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