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 | | Furthermore, the airplane belonged to British South American Airways, founded by a war hero pilot from the British air force, and in fact the plane was a Avro-Lancaster 691, a war plane adapted to commercial flights. |
 | | According to the investigation, the "high speed" impact of the airplane occurred at 4,724m of altitude (15,500 pies) against the west face of Cerro Tupungato (6,800m), in the province of Mendoza (1,000 km west of Buenos Aires). |
 | | The airplane was found 64 km from where the crew thought it was crossing the border between Chile and Argentina, when it made radio contact five minutes before it crashed, even though it hadn’t crossed the Andes yet. |
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