INTERNATIONAL NEWS - A plane has crashed in Uruguay during a memorial event marking the anniversary of the 1972 Andes flight disaster.
Rescue workers are searching for the light aircraft's missing co-pilot.
The two men on board the Piper J-3 had been attending a beachside anniversary barbecue near Montevideo, according to Uruguayan media.
A survivor of the 1972 disaster, which was dramatised in the Hollywood film Alive, said he watched the light aircraft fall into the sea.
The pilot reportedly swam to safety.
Images of the scene showed the plane's yellow tail poking out of the water as rescue boats circled, close to Playa Pascual.
