{"id":3422,"date":"2019-03-12T01:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2019-03-12T01:20:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:20:01","slug":"colombia-plane-crash-kills-12-near-villavicencio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2019\/03\/12\/colombia-plane-crash-kills-12-near-villavicencio\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia plane crash &#8216;kills 12&#8217; near Villavicencio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A plane has crashed in central Colombia killing all 12 people on board, authorities say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pilot of the twin-engine propeller plane reported technical problems then lost contact and crashed south-east of the town of Villavicencio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aviation authorities said investigators were still trying to identify the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Douglas DC-3 aircraft, first built in the 1930s, can seat 30. The Laser Aereo plane was en route to Villavicencio from Taraira.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aeronautica Civil has so far given no details on what caused the crash. Wreckage was discovered about an hour after air traffic control lost contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Villavicencio is about 120km (75 miles) south-east of the capital Bogot\u00e1 and Taraira is on Colombia&#8217;s border with Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/158FC\/production\/_105961388_villavicenciocolombia9760319.png\" alt=\"A map of Colombia, showing Bogot\u00e1, Villavicencio, San Jos\u00e9 del Guaviare and Taraira\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plane was reportedly forced to stop over in the town of San Jos\u00e9 del Guaviare due to poor weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports say it crashed about 89km (55 miles) south-east of Villavicencio near the town of San Carlos de Guaroa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plane has crashed in central Colombia killing all 12 people on board, authorities say. The pilot of the twin-engine propeller plane reported technical problems then lost contact and crashed south-east of the town of Villavicencio. Aviation authorities said investigators were still trying to identify the dead. The Douglas DC-3 aircraft, first built in the 1930s, can seat 30. The&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2019\/03\/12\/colombia-plane-crash-kills-12-near-villavicencio\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3423,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions\/3423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}