Madrid, Ramadan 15, 1437, Jun 20, 2016, SPA -- All seven passengers aboard a small plane that crashed in southern Portugal were still alive after the accident killed their pilot, dpa cied rescue services as saying. The single-engine machine had been taking up a group of skydivers on Sunday night, who sprung out of the plummeting plane and opened their parachutes before it crashed near the town of Ferreira do Alentejo. Only the Belgian pilot did not have a parachute. Quoting eyewitnesses, Portuguese media outlets reported that the plane was about 2,000 metres in the air when it began to disintegrate. The exact cause of the accident was not immediately known. --SPA 13:16 LOCAL TIME 10:16 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w