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A turboprop plane that was carrying 22 people has crashed and exploded in Argentinas southern Patagonia region, leaving no survivors.

The domestic Sol Lineas Aereas flight 5258, which was flying from Neuquen to Comodoro Rivadavia, was carrying 3 crew members and 19 passengers, including a baby, when it crashed into a remote house in Patagonia.

ScienceDaily (July 26, 2010) Everyone knows what it's like for an airplane to land: the slow maneuvering into an approach pattern, the long descent, and the brakes slamming on as soon as the plane touches down, which seems to just barely bring it to a rest a mile later. Birds, however, can switch from barreling forward at full speed to lightly touching down on a target as narrow as a telephone wire. Why can't an airplane be more like a bird?

A French submarine has located the flight recorders from Air France Flight 447, which crashed over the Atlantic Ocean last year.

All 228 people on board the flight were killed following the incident, with the cause of the crash still unknown.

Investigators have now narrowed the location of the black boxes down to a five kilometre square area on the seabed. However, their depth may yet make them unrecoverable.

All ninety passengers on board a jet that crashed into the Mediterranean are believed to have died. The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800, which was bound for Addis Ababa, crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Beirut airport, with witnesses saying they saw a ball of fire.

Police have ruled out terrorism and said it was probably weather-related, with heavy rain and lightning reported in the area.

The airlines chief executive Girma Wake said there was no word of any survivors.