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Victims Of Plane Crash In Panama Located

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By JUAN ZAMORANO, The Associated Press

Published: December 26, 2007

PANAMA CITY, Panama - The bodies of a California businessman, his teenage daughter and the Panamanian pilot of a plane that crashed over the weekend were found Tuesday in Panama's mountains, officials said. A 12-year-old American girl survived.

Michael Klein, 37, Talia Klein, 13, and pilot Edwin Lasso, 23, were found dead in a mountainous region of Panama known as Las Ovejas, about 270 miles west of the capital, the civil protection agency said.

Francesca Lewis, a friend of Talia's who was traveling with the Kleins, survived and was hospitalized with hypothermia and multiple traumas, the agency said in a statement. The severity of her injuries was not immediately clear.
Aviation authorities said the cause of the crash was not yet known, but RPC radio reported that witnesses saw the plane flying at a very low altitude around noon Sunday amid buffeting winds.

Klein, a hedge fund manager, was on vacation with the two girls at an eco-resort he owns in the Central American nation, his ex-wife Kim Klein said from Boquete, Panama, earlier Tuesday. The three had been scheduled to return to Santa Barbara, Calif., on Monday, she said.
Michael Klein had led eGroups Inc., which was sold to Yahoo in 2000 and became Yahoo Groups.

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