/ 5 September 1999

BODIES OF US CRASH VICTIMS FOUND

TEN bodies have been found near the wreckage of a light aircraft carrying United States citizens which crashed over northern Tanzania, The twin-engined plane went down ON Wednesday. Two people remain unaccounted for, according to the sources. The US passengers comprise six men and four women, the US embassy in Nairobi said, adding that officials are heading to the crash site on Mount Monduli, part of the Meru mountain range, 20 kilometers west of Arusha. Plans were being made to bring the bodies to Nairobi. Among the corpses found was that of the pilot. The Northern Air Cessna 404 was flying between the Serengeti national park and Kilimanjaro airport when it was reported missing late Wednesday morning.