https://www.reuters.com/article/us-paraguay-airplane/paraguay-agriculture-minister-among-four-dead-in-plane-crash-official-idUSKBN1KG1MV
7.26.18
Paraguay Agriculture Minister Luis Gneiting and three others died when the twin engine airplane carrying them to the capital Asuncion crashed into a wetland on Wednesday night, an official told reporters on Thursday.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the deaths of four people on a flight that had an accident,” said Joaquin Roa, the head of the National Emergency Secretariat, adding that emergency workers were currently trying to recover the bodies and that the aircraft was “totally disintegrated.”
guirre added that the plane was only in the air for two or three minutes and did not reach a high altitude before falling. Gneiting’s vice-minister for cattle, Vicente Ramirez, and the plane’s pilot and co-pilot also died in the crash. The pilot, Gerardo López, was a former agriculture vice-minister.