Industrialist, Editor Die in Plane Crash
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The president of the multinational Techint construction group and a top editor at the Argentine newspaper La Nacion were killed along with eight others in a plane crash, authorities said.
Agostino Rocca, 56, president of the Buenos Aires-based Techint group, and German Sopena, 54, a well-known journalist and editor at La Nacion, were killed instantly in the crash, authorities said.
The Cessna 15-seat plane, carrying two crew members and eight passengers, left Don Torcuato, north of Buenos Aires, the capital, and crashed about 120 miles southwest of Buenos Aires.
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