Plane with 10 people aboard crashes in southern Colombia
13:11, 7 September 2014
BOGOTA. KAZINFORM Colombia's Civil Aviation authority said Saturday that a Laser's company airplane with two crew members and eight passengers aboard crashed after taking off from an airport in the southern department of Caqueta.There was no immediate report of any survivors from the crash.
The plane with the registration number HK-4755 PA 34 Navajo was reported missing at 15:00 local time (2200 GMT), after taking off from Araracuara's airport in the Colombian Amazon rainforest, the authority said, XINHUA reports. The Colombian Air Force is conducting reconnaissance operations over the area to locate any possible survivors, Air Commander Luis Cordoba told local media. "We are in a process of searching for an airplane reportedly crashed (...) we are on search and rescue operations in case there are survivors, however we know that weather conditions are not the best for us to advance," Cordoba said.