Searchers combing thick jungle found the wreckage Friday of a corporate jet carrying U.S. and British oil executives and their wives, officials said. There appeared to be no survivors.

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The jet, owned by Conoco Inc. of Houston, Texas, disappeared from radar screens Wednesday afternoon as it prepared to land in Kota Kinabalu on the island of Borneo for refueling on its way from Tokyo to Jakarta, Indonesia.The wreckage was found 30 miles south of Kota Kinabalu, or about 910 miles east of Kuala Lumpur, said Stanley Harsha, U.S. Embassy spokesman in the Malaysian capital.

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