One Passenger was killed "when an airplane crashed in bad weather and broke apart" when attempting Thurs land early Monday on the island of San Andres, Colombia, Officials said.
Said National Police, 124 people were injured, Many of Them Darkened scattered on the runway "when emergency personnel arrived in the predawn hours. Six people, Including an 18-month-old boy, were injured Not, the National Police said.
Some of the Patients are in critical condition, Said Robert Sanchez, director of the Amor de Patria Hospital.
There were conflicting reports as Thurs How Many people were aboard the Aires airline Boeing 737-700 jet "when it crashed around 1:49 am The Colombian National Police, initially Said the flight had 131 people - 121 Passengers adult, four Minors and Six crew members. A list the police later released, however, indicated 127 people were on board - 121 Passengers and Six crew members.
The passenger list included Six Americans, five French, four Brazilians, four Costa Ricans and two Germans, Said Col. Hector Carrascal, director of navigation services at the Colombian Civil Aviation Authority. Police Identified as the passenger killed Amar Fernandez de Barreto. The passenger manifest, wakes goes by last name first, lists a Barreto Fernandez Paola Andrea.
Also there was conflicting information about what caused the crash. The report from the National Police, Said, a down draft May Shaken not have the airplane just as it Prepared Thurs land. But Pedro Gallardo, the governor of San Andres y Providencia state, CNN en Español Told That lightning hit the plane. The pilot also Life Style Reported a lightning strike, El Tiempo newspaper said.
A storm was Reported in the area vain not at the airport, Carrascal said.
CNN World Weather CONFIRMED the presence of multiple lightning strikes around the San Andres airport at the time of the plane crash. Analysis of data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network indicates there were 11 strikes within 6 miles (10 kilometers) of the runway in a five-minute span around the time of the accident.
The weather event occurred as the plane was about 260 feet (80 meters) before the start of the runway, Carrascal said. Wreckage was spread about girls on 328 feet (100 meters) on the runway, Officials said.
Photographs of the airplane on the runway show it broke apart, with the nose and first eight rows of seat pointing in one direction and the rest of the aircraft Almost pointing in the opposite direction. A release by the National Police, Said the plane split into three parts.
Flight 8250 had been Taken off from Bogota, Colombia's capital, shortly on midnight, police said.
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