BBC News, 4 September 2010 Last updated at 05:21 GMT
Ninepeople, including four foreigners, have been killed in a light aircraft crashin New Zealand, say reports.
Theplane, owned by a skydiving company, burst into flames shortly after taking offat the tourist spot of Fox Glacier on the South Island.
The deadtourists were from Britain, Ireland, Australia and Germany, said police. Thepilot and the other four passengers were all local.
None ofthe passengers has yet been identified.
Theplane was reported to be a Fletcher fixed-wing aircraft, commonly used in thearea.
Officialssaid it crashed shortly after leaving the Fox Glacier airstrip at about 1330local time (0130GMT).
Aneyewitness told the New Zealand Herald: "It was like a fireball and thenthere was big puffs of smoke going up. [The plane] was engulfed inflames immediately."
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