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Ecuadorean climbers found parts of a plane missing since 1976 scattered on snow-capped Chimborazo volcano, solving a mystery that had perplexed authorities for more than a quarter of a century, an official said Tuesday.
Ecuadorean airline Saeta’s four-engine Vickers Viscount–missing since Aug. 15, 1976, with 59 people aboard–was found shattered on the nation’s largest volcano, 90 miles south of Quito in the Andes mountains.
The missing flight was a mystery to locals who speculated the plane might have been seized by drug traffickers or even extraterrestrials.
