Report says that A military transport plane crashed when taking off in Colombia, with at least 80 people aboard though there were conflicting reports about how many troops were dead and injured.
A military source said that as many as 50 people may have survived when the Hercules aircraft went down shortly after departure from Puerto Leguizamo, near the southern border with Ecuador, on Monday.
Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez expressed “deep sorrow” at the accident.
The crash is the second by a C-130 Hercules aircraft in South America in under a month.