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20 Killed As World War II Vintage Plane Crashes In Switzerland

"The police have the sad certainty that the 20 people aboard perished," police spokeswoman Anita Senti told a news conference.

20 Killed As World War II Vintage Plane Crashes In Switzerland
The World War II Junker plane crashed into the Piz Segnas mountain in Switzerland
Geneva, Switzerland:

Twenty people died after a vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountainside, police said Sunday.

"The police have the sad certainty that the 20 people aboard perished," police spokeswoman Anita Senti told a news conference.

The Junker JU52 HB-HOT aircraft, built in Germany in 1939 and now a collectors' item, crashed into the Piz Segnas mountain in the east of the country on Saturday.

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