Rescue works to remove two bodies that remain in the plane that yesterday crashed into the River Plate will depend on weather conditions, spokesman of the Uruguayan Navy Gastón Jausolo said.
In statements to media today, Jausolo explained three corpses have been recovered so far from the aircraft on Monday’s afternoon.
“Along with members of the Navy diving team we will today seek to recover (the two remaining bodies),” the Uruguayan official affirmed and pointed out investigations to probe the fatal accident will begin “once the judge decides so.”
According to the spokesman, the Beechcraft turboprop was left “not in an accessible spot” for rescue operations, forcing teams to make it to the plane walking “with water up their knees.”
“If weather conditions allow so, the diving team will work and will be able to remove the remaining bodies,” Gastón Jausolo considered and stressed Uruguay was working on “no accident hypothesis.”
“I can affirm the plane was heading to Carmelo (Uruguay); it could not land due to meteorological problems and it crashed while returning to San Fernando (Argentina), I don’t know what caused it, if it was a flaw or what.”
San Fernando is home to the main airport for light aircraft in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. The tragedy claimed five lives and left 4 injured.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald