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The plane carrying 11 people including tycoon, Ken Talbot, and the entire board of the Sundance Resources mining company went missing over the jungle Saturday on a flight from Yaounde, Cameroon's capital, to Yangadou in Congo-Brazzaville.

Alphonse Pepa of the Congolese Transport and Civil Aviation ministry told AFP that ten bodies have been taken out of the wreckage. The search is continuing for the last, but the decision on where the bodies will be taken will be made Tuesday.

Six Australians, two British, two French and one US national were on the twin turboprop Casa C212 plane, which had been chartered by Sundance.

Ground controllers lost contact with the plane shortly after it took off from Yaounde. As well as Talbot, the four other members of the Sundance board, Geoff Wedlock, Don Lewis, Craig Oliver and John Carr-Greg, were on the plane, according to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

Natasha Flason Brian, a French woman based in Australia who worked for Sundance, a consultant and a British citizen and the British pilot were also on board.