The World - News from March 29, 1985
A commercial airliner slammed into a fog-shrouded mountain in southern Colombia during a rainstorm, killing all 40 people aboard, authorities said. The wreckage of the Satena Airlines Fokker 28, a twin-engine turboprop serving remote areas of Colombia, was found near Florencia, about 250 miles southwest of Bogota, they said. Searchers who found the wreckage reported no survivors. The crash was the third this year by a Colombian airliner.
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