{"id":106413,"date":"2026-03-24T06:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/at-least-66-dead-after-military-plane-crashes-in-colombia\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:20:16","slug":"at-least-66-dead-after-military-plane-crashes-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/at-least-66-dead-after-military-plane-crashes-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 66 dead after military plane crashes in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-id=\"474ce0e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\n<p><strong>At least 66 people have died after a military aircraft crashed in Colombia, according to the country\u2019s armed forces chief.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Initial reports say there were 125 people on board, most of them soldiers. Air Force commander Fernando Silva stated in a video shared on social media that the Lockheed Martin Hercules C-130 was carrying 114 passengers along with 11 crew members.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"La FUERZA A\u00c9REA COLOMBIANA explica el ACCIDENTE\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HjxeL2ZRwdg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash is still under investigation. Defence Minister Pedro Anulfo S\u00e1nchez described the incident as \u201ca tragic accident\u201d and expressed condolences to the victims\u2019 families. He also urged the public to avoid speculation until official findings are released, calling it \u201ca profoundly painful event for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">Con profundo dolor informo que un avi\u00f3n H\u00e9rcules de nuestra <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FuerzaAereaCol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FuerzaAereaCol<\/a> sufri\u00f3 un tr\u00e1gico accidente mientras despegaba de Puerto Legu\u00edzamo (Putumayo), cuando transportaba tropas de nuestra Fuerza P\u00fablica.<\/p>\n<p>Unidades militares ya se encuentran en el lugar de los hechos; sin\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pedro Arnulfo Sanchez S. Orgullosamente Colombiano (@PedroSanchezCol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PedroSanchezCol\/status\/2036107815345914099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>President Gustavo Petro also responded, criticizing delays in efforts to modernize the military. In a post on X, he said he would not allow further delays, emphasizing that the lives of young personnel are at risk. He added that any officials unable to meet this challenge should be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia has been operating C-130 aircraft since the 1960s. The plane involved in the crash had taken off from an airport in the southern Amazon region near the border with Peru.<\/p>\n<p>According to local media reports, it went down about two miles from a major urban area.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 66 people have died after a military aircraft crashed in Colombia, according to the country\u2019s armed forces chief. Initial reports say there were 125 people on board, most of them soldiers. Air Force commander Fernando Silva stated in a video shared on social media that the Lockheed Martin Hercules C-130 was carrying 114 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/colombia.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}