By SUZAN FRASER

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – An Atlasjet plane crashed shortly before it was due to land in southwest Turkey early Friday, killing all 56 people on board, the airline’s chief executive said. The cause was not immediately known.

A rescue helicopter reached the plane’s wreckage in a mountainous region near the town of Keciborlu, in Isparta province, and reported that no one had survived the crash, airline CEO Tuncay Doganer said.

Pieces of wreckage and personal belongings were strewn across a vast area and rescue crews were seen placing the dead into body bags. Television news channels showed footage of rescue workers in bright yellow jackets walking around the plane’s fuselage, which lay amid rocks and trees on a slope slightly shrouded in fog.

Workers brought in heavy machinery to clear trees and make access to the site easier, state-run news agency Anatolia reported…

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