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Colombia Holds Ceremony for 69 Killed in Military Plane Crash
The crash killed 69 security forces members and left 57 survivors, prompting calls for modernization of Colombia's aging military aircraft fleet, officials said.
- On Friday in Bogota, Colombia, the Military Forces held a solemn Mass honoring the 69 security forces members who died in Monday's Colombian Aerospace Force C-130 Hercules crash, with survivors attending alongside photographs of the deceased.
- The fatal accident occurred Monday shortly after the Hercules took off from Puerto Leguizamo, Colombia; of the 126 security forces personnel aboard, 57 survived the crash in the Colombian Amazon.
- Gen. Hugo Alejandro López, commander of the Military Forces, said "a part of our military family is broken," while Defense Minister Pedro Sánchez offered support, describing survival as being "born again."
- Colombia observed three days of national mourning while authorities investigated the crash's cause, ruling out armed attacks by illegal groups and analyzing the condition of the aircraft, runway, and crew.
- Colombian President Gustavo Petro questioned why an aircraft described as "so old" was permitted to operate, emphasizing the urgent need to modernize the Hercules fleet of military tactical transport aircraft.
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In a statement published this Saturday, the Colombian Aerospace Force (FAC) reported on the current state of the fleet of Hercules aircraft, following the tragedy of Monday, March 23, in Putumayo, in which the FAC 1016 aircraft crashed and caused the death of 69 uniformed aircraft. FAC reports that with the loss of that Hercules, a C-130H aircraft, the fleet was reduced to two aircraft of this type: those with greater cargo capacity to transport…
The Colombian Aerospace Force (FAC) defended the continuity of operations of its aircraft on Saturday, following the accident of one of the military aircraft in the south-west of the Andean country that left 69 dead and 57 injured.
The National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences confirmed this Friday the identification of 63 of the 69 bodies recovered after the accident of the plane C-130 Hercules of the Colombian Aerospace Force, which occurred on March 23, 2026 in Puerto Leguízamo, Putumayo. According to Communiqué 020, signed by the director general Ariel Emilio Cortés Martínez, the remaining six bodies are in the process of collating genetic samples prev…
Photographs, Candles and Deep Pain Marked Tribute to 69 Uniforms Killed in a Plane Crash in Putumayo
Photographs, candles and deep pain marked tribute to 69 uniforms killed in a plane crash in Putumayo TuBarco News The ceremony in Bogotá brought together family members, survivors and authorities in the midst of a gathering environment. Noticias Colombia. The aligned photographs, the lit candles and the silence marked one of the most moving moments of the tribute to the 69 members of the Public Forces who died in the air crash in Putumayo. In Bo…
DOBLE LLAVE – Hundreds of people paid tribute in several cities of Colombia to the 69 dead and 57 wounded who left the accident of a military plane Hercules C-130 that crashed on Monday when they took off from Puerto Leguízamo, in the Amazonian department of Putumayo. The central event took place in Bogotá, at the Monument of the Fallen Heroes, where relatives, members of the public forces and citizens lit candles for the victims in a ceremony m…
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