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Monday 16 August 2010

plane splits into three

One passenger was killed when an airplane crashed in bad weather and broke apart while attempting to land early Monday on the island of San Andres,
Colombia, officials said. National police said 124 people were injured, many of them scattered on the darkened runway when emergency personnel arrived
in the predawn hours. Six people, including an 18-month-old boy, were not injured, the national police said.Some of the patients are in critical condition,
said Robert Sanchez, director of Hospital Amor de Patria.A list released by the Aires airline says 124 people were treated at two local hospitals. Four patients
at Amor de Patria required surgery and another person at the hospital was in "reserved" condition, the airline said. Amor de Patria treated 101 victims while 23
were tended to at Clinica Villareal.An 11-year-old girl suffered severe head and face trauma, Sanchez told CNN en Español. Doctors also were having difficulty
controlling internal bleeding in a man with pelvic injuries, the hospital director said.
The most seriously injured were being transported aboard an air ambulance to Bogota, the nation's capital, Sanchez said.
There were 131 people -- 121 adult passengers, four minors and six crew members -- aboard the Boeing 737-700 jet when it crashed around 1:49 a.m,
national police said.
Police identified the passenger killed as Amar Fernandez de Barreto. The passenger manifest, which goes by last name first, lists a Barreto Fernandez Paola Andrea.
  There was conflicting information about what caused the crash. The report from the national police said a downdraft may have shaken the airplane just as
it prepared to land. But Pedro Gallardo, the governor of San Andres y Providencia state, told en Español that lightning hit the plane. The pilot also reported
a lightning strike, El Tiempo newspaper said.
courtesy www.cnn.com

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