MALAWI Malawi plane crash kills 5 tourists Mon, 18 Jun 2007 A light aircraft crashed in northern Malawi on Saturday, killing five British tourists and the Canadian pilot, a civil aviation official said. The group had been on a sightseeing tour of Malawi's Nyika Plateau in the northern Rumphi district when the Cessna 206 crashed in a game park on Saturday evening, the country's chief aviation officer Raymond Phesele, told AFP on Sunday. "Yes, I can confirm the accident took place last evening. Unfortunately six people, all of them, died on board," he said. Phesele said the plane, operated by the Nyika Safaris tourist company, took off around 4pm (1400 GMT) from the nearby Chilinda Airfield. The civil aviation department would launch "investigations as soon as possible to establish what happened", he added. A worker at a tourist lodge near the accident site told AFP the plane went down in dense fog and cloud cover. The airfield does not have computerised landing equipment. The Nyika Plateau, a key tourist attraction for its fauna and flora, is about 400 kilometres north of the country's administrative capital Lilongwe. This was Malawi's second light plane crash this year. An aircraft chartered by Australian mining company Paladin crashed in central Malawi in March, killing two people — a pilot and the company's chief executive for operations Granet Halliday. AFP 這篇新聞的重點在於，在馬拉威有個很有名的觀光景點：尼卡國家公園(Nyika Plateau) 去馬拉威，尤其是去醫療團的人，離該景點很近，也很多台灣人曾搭過同一班次的飛機 ，至少我同學就搭過...現在看到那架曾經搭過的飛機墜毀了，實在是非常的震撼... 暑假想去馬拉威的...可能去該國家公園玩，會暫時沒飛機可搭 --

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