The Costa Rican government says that a plane with 10 foreigners and two local crew members has crashed in a wooded area.
The Public Safety Ministry has posted photographs and video of the crash site showing burning wreckage of the plane.
The reason for the crash is not yet known. It took place in the mountainous area of Punta Islita, which is popular with tourists, in the province of Guanacaste, about 230 kilometers (140 miles) west of the capital of San Jose, according to the Daily Mail.
The aircraft, a single-propellor Cessna 208 Caravan, came down in a mountainous area near the Pacific coastal beach town of Punta Islita in the country's Guanacaste peninsula, the spokesman, Carlos Hidalgo, said on his Facebook page.
"It is a private plane with 10 foreign passengers and two local crew members," a separate security ministry statement said.
