Bogota light aircraft crash kills 2

An aviation instructor and a student pilot were killed when a light aircraft belonging to a pilot training school crashed north of Bogota.

At 3:30PM Wednesday, the plane crashed into the property of a country house, eight minutes away from Bogota’s urban area, according to newspaper El Tiempo.

Caracol Radio reported the plane left Guaymaral Airport in the north of Bogota and was headed toward the city of Ibague. According to Municipal Secretary, Fernando Reyes, the plane belonged to Guaymaral Academy of Aviation Pilots

Authorities still do not know what caused the twin-engine plane to lose power and crash.

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