LUANDA, July 17 (Xinhuanet) -- No one on board survived after a Russian-made Antonov plane carrying more than 50 passengers and crew crashed in a forest in Equatorial Guinea, government officials said Sunday.

    According to reports reaching here, government spokesman Alfonso Nsue Mokuy said over 50 people on board have been killed after the Antonov 32 plowed into dense woods 30 km south of the capital, Malabo.

    Rescuers had already been able to recover some of the bodies, the west African nation's national radio reported, without stating how many.

    The plane owned by local company Equatair disappeared Saturday soon after leaving Malabo on Bioko island, en route to the city of Bata on the mainland. Enditem