UPDATE 4-Plane crashes in Ukraine killing 5 on board

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A small chartered plane flying from the Czech Republic to Kiev crashed near the Ukrainian capital on Sunday killing all five people on board, Ukraine's emergency ministry said.

The plane crashed near Kiev's second and smaller airport, Zhylyani, in a field 300 metres from a main road. No one on the ground was hurt, the emergencies ministry spokesman said.

Jan Padourek, first secretary at the Czech Embassy in Kiev, told Czech television the five victims were Czech citizens.

A Reuters witness said there was a destroyed barn in the middle of the field and that sections of a wing, engine and some seats were scattered in the area.

Police and emergency workers were present, he said.

"Five people died," the emergency ministry spokesman said. "There were five people on board -- two pilots and three passengers.

"This was a small plane which was flying to Ukraine and 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) from Zhulyani it dropped off the radar screens," he said. The plane was a Beechcraft B9L.

An information officer at Zhulyani airport would say only that a plane had crashed.

"The plane did not make it to the airport," she said.

Czech TV quoted a Czech embassy official in Kiev as saying the plane came from the eastern Czech city of Hradec Kralove. (Reporting by Natasha Zinets, Serhiy Karazy, Sabina Zawadzki in Kiev and Jan Lopatka in Prague, Writing by James Kilner in Moscow, Editing by Robert Woodward)

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[KIEV/Reuters/Finance.cz]