A two-year-old boy died Sunday after being hit by a plane that strayed at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Santa Marta, a city on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, authorities said.
The aircraft, an SF50 Cirrus operated by the private company Panamerican Training Center, crashed at noon during takeoff, investigators said.
five wounded
The plane ended its race against a tree a few meters from the runway and near the beach where the little boy was.
“Unfortunately we have to report that a two-year-old boy who was not on the plane lost his life,” Colonel Adriana Paz, commander of the local police, told the media.
The five occupants of this aircraft that was flying to the Colombian capital, Bogotá, “were slightly injured” and received medical attention, according to the official report.
Source: BFM TV
