The World - News from Aug. 7, 1988
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Human error and bad weather caused a plane crash in June that killed 10 members of the Ecuadorean air force high command and an Israeli military attache, a report by the Ecuadorean air force said. Ecuador’s air force chief, Angel Augusto Flores, and Israeli military attache Shabtay Ben Shoa were among those killed when the plane crashed into a mountain June 3 as it was preparing to land at the Quito airport. A government commission presented a plan last week to build a new international airport in Quito amid controversy over the safety of the existing airport. Planes are forced to fly between walls of mountains to reach the Quito airport.
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