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Another five people were injured in the crash which happened at a sports field in a populated part east of the city.
Six of those killed were the passengers aboard the plane, while another two were killed on the ground.
More might have been killed if the pilot had not veered away from homes, police said.
"The pilot did not have enough time for an emergency landing, but still had time to take the plane away from the residential area," Police General Jorge Rojas said.
The Cessna 210 was approaching Tobalaba airport when it went down at the field in the Penalolen district, the air force said.
"The airplane appeared to lose power, made a sudden U-turn and fell down," a witness, Ernesto Munoz, told state television. "There was violent fire when it crashed."
It is not clear what caused the crash.
(BBC)
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