The small aircraft with four people aboard missing in western Panama was found crashed with one survivor on Tuesday, Panama's National Civil Protection System Director Roberto Velasquez told local media.
Panamanian rescuers found three bodies and a survivor in a heavily-wooded area of Chiriqui province in Panama where the plane crashed, he said.
The dead were Panamanian pilot Eric Santos, U.S. businessman Michael Klein and Klein's 13-year-old daughter Talia.
Talia's 12-year-old friend Francesca Lewis survived the accident and was hospitalized with hypothermia and multiple traumas.
The Panama-registered Cessna 172 aircraft disappeared from radar while flying from the Pacific island of Isla Seca to the Chiriqui volcano on Sunday.
Noting the rescuing efforts had taken longer than expectations due to bad weather, Velasquez said rescuers were making what he called "prodigious efforts" to carry Lewis and the three bodies out of the crashing site.
The Klein family, residing in California of the United States, had offered 25,000 U.S. dollars in reward for finding the plane and its passengers.
Source:Xinhua
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