Aires B73G Accident San Andres Islands

[flying_kiwi]

Flight are reporting that an Aires B737-700 (possibly HK-4682) operating a flight from Bogota to San Andres Island crashed while landing.
They quote a local air force official as stating of the 127 passengers and crew, there is at least one fatality, and that 34 have been taken to hospital.

Based on what has been reported so far, I suspect that the aircraft overran the runway while landing, ending in the sea.

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Yorden

[Rockville]

Plane crash in Colombia kills one after lightning strike

One passenger was killed and 34 were injured when lightning hit an airplane and caused it to split into at least two parts when landing early Monday on the island of San Andres, Colombia, Gov. Pedro Gallardo told CNN en Espanol.
There were 131 people on-board the Aires airline 737-700 jet when it crashed around 1:50 a.m. (2:50 a.m. ET), the Colombian national police said. The flight had 121 adult passengers, four minors and six crew members, the police said.
The fatality was identified as Amar Fernandez de Barreto.

CNN, august 16th 2010 12:30 GMT

[flying_kiwi]

Based on what has been reported so far, I suspect that the aircraft overran the runway while landing, ending in the sea.

Looks like I was wrong on this one. Reports now state that the aircraft touched down 80 short of the runway, and broke into three pieces.

Colombian media site El Espectador has an image showing the forward section of the aircraft and the tail section, both on what looks like the runway, but facing in opposite directions. See Here

Yorden

[ehusmann]

Some pictures of the crash on Yahoo. Seems worse than the Schiphol crash, yet only one fatality. I think a lot of people have been very lucky today!

Erwin

[Bokkum]

ex G-EZJU of EZY (yes, saw the inside of this a/c before ...)

[cHabu]

Photo credit: BBC / AP

See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10988966" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[rené]

ex G-EZJU of EZY (yes, saw the inside of this a/c before ...)

is it confirmed as HK-4682?

René

[Antilliaan]

HK-4682 is confirmed from pictures, registered with Aires on 12 July 2010...