Colombian Military Plane With 110 Soldiers Onboard Crashes Following Takeoff

A subject carrier plane, reportedly carrying 110 soldiers, was progressive successful an mishap successful Colombia's confederate Amazon region connected Monday, nan country's defence ministry has confirmed.

The Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules aircraft collapsed soon aft departing from Puerto Leguizamo, a distant location heavy wrong nan Amazon adjacent nan Peruvian border.

Defence Minister Pedro Sanchez stated nan level was transporting troops from nan equipped forces erstwhile nan incident occurred.

Local outlet BluRadio, citing authorities, reported that 110 soldiers were connected committee nan aircraft, which came down conscionable 3 kilometres (two miles) from an municipality centre.

However, Mr Sanchez cautioned that "the nonstop number of victims and nan causes of nan clang person not yet been determined."

US defence institution Lockheed Martin did not instantly respond to a petition for remark regarding nan accident.

"I dream location are nary fatalities successful this horrific mishap that should ne'er person happened," President Gustavo Petro said successful a station connected X, successful which he criticised bureaucratic obstacles for delaying his plans to modernise nan military.

"I will assistance nary further delays; it is nan lives of our young group that are astatine stake," he said. "If civilian aliases subject administrative officials are not up to this challenge, they must beryllium removed."

Hercules C-130 planes were first launched successful nan 1950s and Colombia acquired its first models successful nan precocious 1960s.

It has much precocious modernised immoderate older C-130s pinch newer models sent from nan US nether a rule that allows for nan transportation of utilized aliases surplus subject equipment.

Details of nan level progressive successful nan mishap were not instantly available.

At nan extremity of February, different Hercules C-130 belonging to nan Bolivian Air Force collapsed successful nan populous metropolis of Alto, hardly missing a residential block.

More than 20 group died and different 30 were injured, and banknotes from nan plane's cargo scattered astir nan city, prompting clashes betwixt residents and information forces.