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malaise

(269,004 posts)
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 09:00 PM Feb 2016

Folk on our South Coast in St Elizabeth have reported

a plane bursting into flame and crashing into the Caribbean sea this afternoon

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/JDF-investigating-reported-plane-crash-off-St-Elizabeth-coastline
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ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica – The St Elizabeth police have said they received a telephone call regarding the sighting of a supposed aircraft crashing off the coastline in south St Elizabeth.

A police source said the Jamaica Defence Force is investigating the matter.

“We can’t say if it’s a fact, but we got a call that a plane was seen on fire and then was seen to plunge into the sea,” the source said.

Radio Jamaica (RJR) reported a earlier that people claiming to be eyewitnesses in the Lovers Leap area of south-east St Elizabeth had reported seeing the plane go down.

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