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Colombia’s state-owned airline Satena confirmed industrial flight HK-4709 crashed after disappearing close to the Colombian-Venezuelan border on Wednesday, killing all 15 folks on board, together with a Colombian politician.
The airline stated the Beechcraft 1900, working the Cúcuta-Ocaña route, departed at 11:42 a.m. native time and was scheduled to land at roughly 12:05 p.m.
It is final contact with air visitors management was at 11:54 a.m., and it will have exhausted its flight endurance time at 2 p.m.
It’s unclear what led to the crash of the Satena Airways airplane. (Gaby Oraa/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)
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When officers realized the flight had misplaced contact, Satena stated plane from the Colombian Aerospace Force, Nationwide Military, and constitution flight firm Searca initiated aerial overflight operations within the areas the place the final accessible data on the plane was recorded.
The plane additionally searched alongside the lacking airplane’s deliberate route.
Simply earlier than 5:30 p.m., Satena confirmed the airplane crashed leaving no survivors, citing data from the president of the Group Motion Board of the Curásica rural district within the municipality of La Playa de Belén.
The 2 crew members had been recognized as Capt. Miguel Vanegas and Capt. Jose de la Vega.
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The 13 passengers had been recognized as: María Álvarez Barbosa; Carlos Salcedo; Rolando Penaloza Gualdron; María Díaz Rodríguez; Maira Avendano Rincon; Anayisel Quintero; Karen Parales Vera; Anirley Julio Osorio; Gineth Rincon; Diogenes Quintero Amaya; Natalia Acosta Salcedo; Maira Sánchez Criado; and Juan Pacheco Mejía.
Diogenes Quintero Amaya was a member of the Home of Representatives of Colombia, in line with a report from The Metropolis Paper Bogotá. Carlos Salcedo was a candidate for Colombia’s Home of Representatives.
An aerial view exhibits the Francisco de Paula Santander Worldwide Bridge, in Cucuta, Colombia. (Reuters/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)
“From Satena, we prolong our most honest condolences, with profound sorrow and full solidarity, to the households of our passengers and crew members who misplaced their lives on this accident,” the airline wrote in a press release.
Satena added it should deploy all of its assets to offer humanitarian assistance to the victims’ households and to “make clear the circumstances of what occurred.”
The airline is closely utilized by authorities officers and vacationers, and connects the capital with small regional airports within the capitals of Colombia’s 32 states.
A Satena Airways airplane from Bogotá, Colombia, on the Worldwide Airport in La Guajira, Venezuela. (Pedro Rances Mattey/Anadolu Company through Getty Photos)
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The realm the place the airplane disappeared, close to Colombia’s border with Venezuela, is understood for its mountainous terrain and poor visibility.
Native newspaper El Tiempo reported there have been heavy rains for weeks between Cucuta and the Catatumbo area, which has seen current violence — together with focused killings, kidnappings, and compelled displacement of civilians.
