Over the weekend, search efforts intensified as boats, helicopters and divers scoured the area for any sign of the missing plane.

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Donetsk Governor Andrei Shishatsky said that rescuers had located one of the missing people in the wreckage of the plane but were still unsure whether the person was alive, the Interfax news agency reported.

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The family confirmed that the plane was missing on Saturday.

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Elsewhere, Wigan's Steve Gohouri has sealed his place on the plane after missing out on Angola, while Hibernian's Sol Bamba, who scored in Les Elephants' 2-2 draw with Paraguay in France this week, is among the defenders travelling.

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The beacon stopped working Thursday evening, possibly because the battery had run out, about a day after the plane was reported missing.

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The jockey has suffered his share of traumas, missing the 2000 Royal Ascot meeting as he recovered from injuries sustained in a plane crash which killed the pilot.

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The most famous case is missing airman Ron Arad, whose plane came down during a raid over Lebanon in 1986.

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Cronje, who was 32, reportedly caught a ride home to his home town of George on the Hawker Siddeley 748 cargo plane from Bloemfontein after missing an earlier scheduled flight.

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The plane's two pilots, who apparently fell to the sea, are missing.

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An author from Somerset, who is writing a book about plane crashes in the county, is looking for help to fill in the missing gaps.

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