Eleven dead as UN plane crashes in HaitiFive Jordanians and six Uruguayans belonging to the UN peacekeeping mission Noun 1. peacekeeping mission - the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) peacekeeping, peacekeeping operation in Haiti were killed on Friday when their plane crashed while on a border surveillance mission, the UN mission in Haiti said. The mission known as MINUSTAH MINUSTAH Mission des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation en Haïti (French: United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti) said in a statement that a rescue team found no survivors among the 11 passengers and crew aboard the CASA Ca´sa n. 1. A house or mansion. I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to modernize the old casa, and that even the garden was left in its lawless native luxuriance. - Bret Harte. 212 military plane belonging to Uruguayan peacekeepers. The plane slammed into the side of a mountain in eastern Haiti along the border with the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic (dəmĭn`ĭkən), republic (2005 est. pop. 8,950,000), 18,700 sq mi (48,442 sq km), West Indies, on the eastern two thirds of the island of Hispaniola. The capital and largest city is Santo Domingo. , the UN mission in Haiti said. In Montevideo, the Uruguayan Air Force History The birth date of military aviation in Uruguay is 17 March 1913 when the Escuela de Aviación Militar was formed on a small airport 50 km from Montevideo. The first aircraft were a Farman Longhorn biplane and a Blériot XI monoplane. gave the breakdown by nationality. MINUSTAH said the plane went down in Ganthier municipality, near the Dominican Republic border, and said the bodies had been recovered and would be taken to Port-au-Prince. "The cause of the crash is not known at this point and an investigation is under way," the mission added. The Brazilian-led MINUSTAH has been deployed in the impoverished Caribbean nation of eight million people since mid-2004. The mission fields 9,123 uniformed personnel -- 7,057 troops and 2,066 police, under the command of Brazilian General Floriano Peixoto. 
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