Operators lost contact with a C-130 Hercules military aircraft on Monday at 6:13 phase modulation GMT — almost an hour and a one-half into a flight conduct 21 passenger and 17 crew members to Antarctica , according to a command released by theChilean Air Force .
The escape began in Santiago , then made a abbreviated stopover in the southern city of Punta Arenas before embark on its final leg across Drake Passage , the water between Cape Horn and Antarctica .
The airplane was about 280 marine mile from its intended destination at Chile ’s military base on King George Island when it give up communicating , Chilean authorities state .
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BBCreports that Air Force General Eduardo Mosqueira severalize local pressure that the aircraft did n’t activate an emergency signal and suggested the experienced pilot might have render to land on the piddle .
“ The planer is presumed to have crash , give that the amount of fuel and the plane ’s self-direction had already endure out , ” said Chilean Air Force General Francisco Torres in a crush league , accordingto CNN . He added that a search and rescue operation was already underway .
According to BBC , 15 passenger were Air Force service members , three were soldier , two were civilian engineer working for construction firm Inproser , and one was a Magellanes University student .
The plane was train rider to the bag to survey a float fuel word of mouth and apply an anticorrosive treatment to facilities , accord to the Air Force .
The United States , Uruguay , and Argentina are attend to in the hunting efforts , concord to CNN . The U.S. is using two hunting planet to survey the area where the C-130 went disconsolate .
InTwitterposts , Chile President Sebastián Piñera say that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro also offered to attend . “ With the help of many we are making every humanly possible cause in the search , ” Piñera write .
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