BERLIN (AFP) - A light aircraft crashed in the eastern German state of Saxony late Sunday with at least two pilots on board.

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A police spokesman was unable to say how many people had died in the crash of a Cessna Citation 550 near the Czech border.

The business plane can normally carry up to eight people, according to a German air safety agency spokesman, who said the Cessna had taken off from Prague in the Czech Republic heading for Karlstadt in western Sweden.

Radio contact was broken off at 8:20 pm (1920 GMT) when the plane was 36 kilometres (23 miles) southeast of Dresden.

Last Updated (Monday, 15 February 2010 08:30)