A commuter airline crash claimed the lives of an LDS mission president and one of his counselors Sunday near Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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Jose Jiminez, 46, president of the Guatemala Guatemala City North Mission, was among 13 people killed when the plane he was aboard crashed into a mountainside at 11 p.m. - about seven miles outside of the capital. Jiminez's counselor, Julio Arfe, also died in the crash. There were no survivors, and wreckage was scattered over a 300-meter area.Jiminez, a native of Puerto Rico, and Arfe, a Guatemalan, were returning to Guatemala City from church business in another part of the country.