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| Anti-drug Mission Plane With Americans & Panamanian Military Crashes |
| 2013-10-05 |
| A plane carrying five Americans and a Panamanian on an anti-drug mission crashed Saturday in a remote part of northern Colombia, killing four of the occupants and seriously injuring the other two, authorities said. Panamanian officials said three Americans and a Panamanian military officer were killed, and the other two Americans on board were injured. The Americans have not been identified. The crash took place in Choco province, 340 miles (550 kilometers) northwest of Colombia's capital, Bogota, near the border with Panama. Gen. Nicasio de Jesus Martinez, commander of the Colombian army's Brigade IV whose troops traveled to the accident scene, ruled out the possibility that the plane was shot down by rebels still active in Colombia. "There was no aggression, no impact ... it was a failure," said Martinez, adding that it was too soon to know if the crash was caused by mechanical failure, human error or the weather. Farmers reported that the plane went down at about 1 a.m. local time in a rural part of the municipality of Acandi, said Acandi Mayor Gabriel Jose Olivares. |
| Posted by:Au Auric |