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Colombia Plane Crashes, No Survivors


Wreckage is seen from a Douglas DC-3 passenger aircraft which crashed on the Colombian plains province of Meta, San Martin, Colombia, March 9, 2019.
Wreckage is seen from a Douglas DC-3 passenger aircraft which crashed on the Colombian plains province of Meta, San Martin, Colombia, March 9, 2019.

An airplane crash in Colombia has killed all 12 people aboard the aircraft.

"Unfortunately... there were no survivors," Colombia's civil aviation authority said.

The Laser Aero flight made a distress call before the crash Saturday morning, officials said.

The flight originated in San Jose del Guaviare and was headed for Villavicencio.

Authorities said the remains of the plane, a DC-3, were found near Villavicencio.

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