Plane Crash Outside Of Costa Rica Capital Kills 5

A small plane traveling to Costa Rica's capital of San Jose crashed on Monday afternoon, authorities said, killing five of the six passengers on board.

Firefighters said they had located the wrecked aircraft and confirmed that most aboard had died.

A sixth person, who the Red Cross identified as a 31-year-old woman, is in critical condition.

All of those aboard were from Costa Rica, according to the country's civil aviation authority.

Search and rescue teams located the wreckage on the mountainside and arrived at the site of the accident after several hours of trying to access the steep wooded slopes.

The plane, which had taken off from Tortuguero, was scheduled to land at the Tobias Bolanos airport, east of San Jose, but due to bad weather conditions, it had to divert to the Juan Santamaria airport.

An official report on the cause of the crash is yet to be known.

The passengers of the aircraft were all from Costa Rica and were working in tourism companies, local reports said._Reuters