Jet breaks apart during landing in Colombia
One passenger was killed after an airplane crashed in bad weather and broke apart while attempting to land early Monday on the island of San Andres, Colombia, officials said.
National police said 124 people were injured, many of them scattered on the darkened runway when emergency personnel arrived in the predawn hours. Six people, including an 18-month-old boy, were not injured, the national police said.
Some of the patients are in critical condition, said Robert Sanchez, director of Hospital Amor de Patria.A list released by the Aires airline says 124 people were treated at two local hospitals. Four patients at Amor de Patria required surgery and another person at the hospital was in "reserved" condition, the airline said. Amor de Patria treated 101 victims while 23 were tended to at Clinica Villareal.
An 11-year-old girl suffered severe head and face trauma, Sanchez told CNN en Espa?ol. Doctors also were having difficulty controlling internal bleeding in a man with pelvic injuries, the hospital director said.
