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[Schneemann]

Chilean helicopter crash kills 13

SANTIAGO, Chile (CNN) -- Authorities recovered the bodies Monday of a former Chilean presidential pilot and 12 firefighters whose helicopter crashed into a fog-shrouded mountain Sunday afternoon.

The pilot, identified as Eduardo Canala Pecchenino, was a Chilean air force commander who flew his last mission as a presidential pilot in December, El Mercurio newspaper said.

The other 12 on board -- all of them younger than 30 -- were members of crews fighting forest fires in central Chile, officials said.

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