4 dead, 2 survive Colombian crash

George sends us a link to a Fox News article about 3 American CIA-types and a Panamanian National Guardsman (actually the national army) who were killed in a plane crash on flight out of Panama which ended in the jungles of Colombia. Two others were injured and rescued by Colombian troops.

The Dash 8 was tracking a suspected smuggling vessel along with a Colombian vessel over the western Caribbean when it lost radio contact with the U.S.-sponsored multinational task force in Key West, Florida that runs drug interdiction in region, said its spokeswoman, Jody Drives.

From the New York Times;

Gen. Nicasio de Jesús Martínez, commander of the Colombian Army’s Brigade IV, whose troops traveled to the accident scene, ruled out the possibility that rebels active in Colombia had shot down the plane.

General Martinez said it was too soon to know whether mechanical failure, human error or the weather had caused the crash.

I wish the best for the families left behind, but I’m just glad that it didn’t end like the crash of Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes and Keith Stansell who spent more than 5 years in captivity with FARC. You can read about their ordeal and rescue in “Out of Captivity”

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