10 die in Colombian plane crash

The bodies of 10 people killed aboard a Colombian plane that crashed in Amazon jungles have been recovered, officials of the Latin American country said today. A Colombian Air Force helicopter took the bodies to the town of Araracuara, where the aircraft had taken off on Saturday. The plane was bound for Florence, capital of the southwestern department of Caqueta. Rescue team official Gustavo Ortega said in Bogota on Sunday that eight passengers and two crew died on impact during the accident. Ortega said all the dead – six men, three women and a young girl – were Colombian nationals. He said the flight was a normal commercial route. A man who was supposed to have boarded the flight, Silvio Rojas, told a Colombian Radio Station that engine failure shortly after take-off might have caused the crash, according to a news agency.