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A light aircraft on a French customs surveillance operation crashed in Malta on Monday morning, killing the five people on board.
The Maltese government said the Fairchild Metroliner was taking part in an operation to track illicit trafficking routes, including human and drugs trafficking.
The Maltese government said in a statement: “The flight was part of a French Customs surveillance operation which has been taking place for the past five months, with the aim of tracing routes of illicit trafficking of all sorts, including human and drug trafficking amongst others.
“The said flight was registered with the Malta Air Traffic Services as a local flight and was to return to Malta within hours without landing in third countries.”
The statement said that information gathered from eyewitnesses clearly suggested that there was no explosion before impact.
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