The World : DC-6 Crashes; 74 Aboard
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A Colombian air force cargo plane providing passenger service during a pilots’ strike crashed in the Amazon jungle with 74 people aboard, the Colombian Defense Ministry said. Army helicopters quickly located the wreckage of the DC-6 but could not immediately determine if there were survivors because of bad weather, approaching darkness and rough terrain. The plane, carrying civilian passengers on a substitute flight for Colombia’s strikebound airline industry, crashed minutes after takeoff from the city of Leticia in extreme southeast Colombia.
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