Briton, Pakistani killed in plane crash in Turkey

ANKARA, May 15 (Reuters) Two men, a Briton and a Pakistani, were killed when their small private aircraft crashed in a mountainous region of eastern Turkey, the state Anatolian news agency said today.

Quoting the local governor, the agency said search teams had found the wreckage of the aircraft and the bodies of the two men in a remote area of Trabzon province in northeast Turkey.

On its Web site, the agency showed a picture of the aircraft, a Sky Arrow 65OT, jutting out of a heavily wooded hillside.

The plane had taken off from the Black Sea city of Trabzon yesterday bound for Iran but had disappeared from radar screens.

It was not immediately clear what caused the crash. Eastern Turkey has suffered difficult weather conditions in recent days.

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