The World - News from April 29, 1986
An Ecuadorean army rescue team scaled an Andean mountain and found the bodies of Ecuador’s education minister, his son and four others in the wreckage of a light plane that crashed last Friday. The victims were Education Minister Camilo Gallegos, 50, his son, Camilo, 21, three other ministry officials and the pilot. The Piper Aztec crashed at the 13,000-foot level of Ruminahui mountain, 18 miles southeast of Quito, the capital.
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