Colombia plane crash kills 12 -police source
A plane crash in Colombia killed 12 people on Saturday, aviation and emergency services said. The Douglas DC-3 aircraft, a twin-engine propeller plane that was first produced in the 1930s, crashed in the center-east of the country on a flight between the towns of San Jose del Guaviare and Villavicencio. "Unfortunately... there were no survivors," the Aeronautica Civil aviation authority said, adding that the wreckage was found close to Villavicencio.
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- Published Date: 12:00 | 09 March 2019
- Modified Date: 11:20 | 09 March 2019
A dozen people have been killed in a plane crash in the Colombian plains province of Meta, a police source said on Saturday.
The civil aviation agency confirmed in a statement that there were no survivors of the crash, which occurred after the DC-3 aircraft made a distress call at 10:40 a.m. local time, but said it was working to identify and count those killed.
The plane, which is owned by Laser Aereo airlines, was en route from the southern city of San Jose del Guaviare to central Villavicencio, the agency said.
It crashed about midway through its flight in San Carlos de Guaroa municipality in the plains province of Meta.
The airline said it had no immediate comment.