Of the other 22 injured, twelve were transferred to the Maria Inmaculada Hospital, in Florencia, capital of the neighboring department of Caquetá, and ten remain in a dispensary of the Air Force in Puerto Leguízamo, where the accident occurred. In the early afternoon, the governor had confirmed eight deaths and 83 injuries, which means that several of them died later.“The report we currently have is of 34 people who died and 70 injured, of whom 48 were transferred to the Military Hospital of Bogotá,” said the governor of Putumayo, Jhon Gabriel Molina, to Noticias Caracol.
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According to the FAC, the plane, which was carrying 125 people including military personnel, Air Force crew, and police officers, crashed and caught fire shortly after taking off from the Puerto Leguízamo airport, a town located on the border with Ecuador and Peru. The governor added that the figures he has for the dead and injured total 104 people, and given that 125 were traveling on the plane, “21 people would be missing to identify, and at this moment we have not been able to clarify where they are.” The Military Forces have refrained from giving new figures for the injured and deceased out of respect for the families, and the Army asked the press to “avoid the dissemination of unconfirmed information,” given the prevailing confusion.Meanwhile, ambulances with the injured arrived at the Central Military Hospital in Bogota throughout the afternoon, who were transferred by plane from Puerto Leguízamo, where, with the help of locals, rescue organizations continue to search for people who do not appear in the death records nor injured.
