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Urgent: Airplane with 8 aboard missing in rescue mission in Vietnam: official

Xinhua, June 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

A CASA aircraft with eight people aboard lost contact early on Thursday afternoon while carrying out rescue mission in waters off northern Hai Phong city in Vietnam, an official from the National Committee for Search and Rescue told Xinhua on phone.

The aircraft was carrying out searching mission for the SU-30 fighter jet which went missing Tuesday morning. Enditem