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ATHENS, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- The bodies of two Ukrainian nationals aboard a single-engine aircraft that crashed in northern Greece on Friday were retrieved by rescue crews, the Greek Fire Service announced.
The couple had left Alexandroupolis airport for Bucharest on a CT2K plane, Greek national news agency AMNA reported.
A second similar small plane also taken off from the same airport for the same destination and alerted authorities when it went missing near the borders with Bulgaria.
A rescue operation was launched amid heavy rainfall and the plane and the corpses were found in a mountainous area. (by Maria Spiliopoulou)
