By AFPMore by this AuthorSantiago,A Chilean military plane with 38 people aboard has gone missing after taking off from the country's south for a base in Antarctica and is presumed to have crashed, authorities have said. Seventeen of those on board the C-130 aircraft were crew and the others were passengers, Chile's Air Force said Monday. AdvertisementThose on board were to carry out logistical support tasks at Chile's Eduardo Frei Antarctic base -- the country's largest, the Air Force said. Personnel were also being transferred to inspect the base's floating fuel supply pipeline and undertake anti-corrosive treatment of the facility. The plane did have a satellite positioning system, but it did not appear to be working during the early morning search, said Eduardo Mosqueira, Commander of the Fourth Air Brigade.

Source: Daily Nation December 10, 2019 04:37 UTC