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(LIP-jl) -- According to Peru's RPP Radio, a missing Peruvian Air Force plane has been found by military search parties in the jungle department of Loreto.

Despite rough weather conditions, search parties were able to locate the wreckage as well as 8 reported survivors on Canchahuaya hill, according to the Peruvian news radio network.

Search helicopters were able to locate the survivors with relative ease as the resourceful survivors built a fire as a signal for rescuers.

Authorities and Peruvian media reports have identified the survivors as: Sergio Horacio Ramos Gonzales, Janet Zevallos Davila (who is seven months pregnant), Richard Castro Garcia (who is the Loreto regional president's political adviser), Delfina Vasquez, Antonio Hermes Soto and crew member Raul Toledo Vasquez.

The names of the other two survivors have yet to be released.

The complete passenger list is as follows: Antonio Hermes Soto, Maria Gonzales, Humberto Hidalgo, Sergio Ramos, Jorge Oregon Ramirez, Marco Morales La Rosa, Patricio Toro Gil, Diana Yoli Ocoña, Jose Heredia More, Richard Castro Garcia, Martha Grandes Perez, Janet Zevallos Davila, Delfina Vasquez Tananta, Jorge Arellano Sanchez, Mary Nuñez Cardenas, Carlos Mera Rios, Juan Saavedra Mera, and the crew; Rodrigo Cardenas Nuñez, Ricardo Caro Peña, and Raul Toledo. Vasquez

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