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(CNN Spanish) - Chilean authorities confirmed that they found remains of the C-130 Hercules plane that was on its way to Antarctica. Due to the state of the wreckage of the plane, the crew and passengers on board were killed.
The accident of this aircraft, with 38 people on board, is another that enluta to the continent. Look here for a list of 10 aerial tragedies that shocked Latin America.
MIRA: The Chilean Minister of Defense confirms the discovery of wreckage of the wrecked plane and considers all passengers dead
December 24, 2018: the governor of the state of Puebla dies
Martha Erika Alonso had spent ten days in the position of governor of the state of Puebla, in Mexico, when a helicopter in which she was traveling rushed ashore ten minutes after takeoff in the municipality of Santa María Coronango. In the helicopter was also her husband, the senator and former governor Rafael Moreno Valle. The pilot, the co-pilot and another passenger also died.
Remains of the helicopter in which Martha Erika Alonso was traveling.
May 18, 2018: Cubana de Aviacion flight crashes when leaving Havana
A Boeing 737 rented by Cubana de Aviacion, flight DMJ 0972, left at 12:08 pm from Havana to Holguin and crashed shortly after takeoff at the José Martí airport in the capital of Cuba. Of the 113 occupants, only one person survived. The incident was caused by a human error, according to Global Air, the Mexican airline that operated the flight.
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November 28, 2016: Sadness on the planet soccer by Chapecoense
A few minutes before landing at the José María Córdova airport, near Medellin, Colombia, a plane from the Bolivian company LaMIa collided with a mountain known as Cerro Gordo. 71 people died, almost all of them belonging to the Brazilian Association Chapecoense de Fútbol team, which would play the final of the South American Cup against Atlético Nacional de Medellín. 6 people survived the accident, caused by lack of fuel.
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June 1, 2009: tragedy in the Atlantic Ocean
Air France flight 447 departed from Rio de Janeiro to Paris and rushed into the vast Atlantic Ocean. 228 people died and four searches were needed over two years to recover part of the fuselage and passenger bodies. According to the final report of the investigation, the accident was due to a series of pilot errors and an inadequate reaction to technical problems of the aircraft.
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July 17, 2007: Brazilian domestic flight becomes the worst accident of the year
Coming from the city of Porto Alegre, flight 3054 of the Brazilian airline TAM crashed at the destination airport, the Congonhas de Sao Paulo, after exiting the airstrip and hitting a fuel station. That rainy afternoon, 187 people who went on the Airbus A320 lost their lives and 12 people who were on the ground.
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December 20, 1995: a sinister before Christmas
The crash of the Boeing 757 of American Airlines flight 965 is one of the largest in the history of Colombia and was the worst air disaster of that year. 159 people flying from Miami, United States, died after the plane apparently deviated from its path and crashed into the San José hill near Buga, Valle del Cauca, 5 minutes from its final destination in Cali, capital of that department Four people survived. According to the Boeing, it was the first accident that involved a twin-engine 757.
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November 27, 1989: the horror of narcoterrorism
A bomb exploded under Seat 14F on the Boeing 727-21 of Avianca, while covering the Bogotá - Cali route, in Colombia, minutes after leaving at 7:11 am from the El Dorado International Airport, as detailed by the Flight Safety Foundation. 110 people died that Monday, in a sinister that became a symbol of the horror of narcoterrorism, because the Medellín cartel was blamed for the activation of the explosive on the plane. For this act of terrorism, says the Flight Safety Foundation, in 1994 Dandeny Muñoz-Mosquera, a member of the Medellin cartel, was convicted. This crime was declared by the Colombian authorities as against humanity in 2009.
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October 13, 1972: the 'tragedy of the Andes'
An Uruguayan Air Force aircraft collided in the Los Andes mountain range in Argentina, while transporting the Old Christians rugby team to Santiago de Chile. The impact survived 27 of the 45 passengers, but in the end 16 people were rescued alive after fighting the harsh conditions of the mountain. The story of the survivors inspired a movie and dozens of stories about his miraculous rescue.
June 4, 1969: A politician and a tennis player, among the victims in La Sierra del Fraile
79 people who were on flight 704 of Mexicana de Aviacion died when the aircraft approached the International Airport of the North, in Monterrey, and crashed with the Sierra del Fraile, 23 kilometers northwest of the airport of that Mexican city. According to local media, among the occupants was politician Carlos Alberto Madrazo and tennis player Rafael Osuna.
June 24, 1935: Carlos Gardel dies
Carlos Gardel was on a tour of Colombia and on June 24 of that year, shortly before 3:00 pm, the plane on which the 'Creole thrush' was going (a Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor) crashed into Another plane that was rolling before takeoff in the middle of the Enrique Olaya Herrera airport in Medellin, indicates the Flight Safety Foundation. Of the 13 occupants of the aircraft, 10 died, including Alfredo Le Pera and Guillermo Barbieri, musicians who worked with Gardel, according to the Télam news agency. In the other airplane died its 7 passengers, for a total of 17 killed by the collision.
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