This Sunday, January 7, an ambulance-type light aircraft with registration HK 4983, belonging to special air services, crashed near the airport Alfonso López Pumarejo of Valledupar, apparently due to a mechanical failure.
The plane had left Valledupar around 11 am heading to the airport guaimaral, near Bogotá, but when it failed in the air it tried to return, but fell to the ground. In this event the doctor lost his life Jorge Ecury Perdomo and 5 people were injuredamong these a child who was sick and was in the company of his mother.
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It is not the first time that Valledupar It is in the news due to the accident of a plane. On February 5, 1972, the HK-1139 plane crashed in the Perijá mountain range, near Valledupar, causing the death of 15 passengers and 4 crew members.
This aircraft belonged to the company Cesar Air Transport. The flight left from Bogotá’s El Dorado airport bound for Valledupar, but crashed before landing. Aníbal Velázquez performed the song ‘Tragedy on Cerro Azul‘, in reference to the exact place where the plane fell, and told how the families of the passengers were waiting for them uneasily at the Valledupar airport. When time passed and they did not arrive, they began to cry.
THE SEIZED PLANE
More than 30 years ago, the airplane DC-6 It was seized with a shipment of marijuana in the corregimental area of Valledupar. Apparently, the plane was part of the Marimber boom of the 1980s, when the illicit marijuana trade was widely known, and Cesar was a department where weed was grown.
The plane fell loaded with marijuana near the municipality of Bosconia and, as it was the only airport in Cesar, it was transferred to Alfonso López Pumarejo from Valledupar. 15 years after being immobilized, he was transported to the park The icecreamIn the spa Hurtado. A tractor towed the old plane across the city from south to north. For this work it was necessary to remove several posts and cut several trees, which caused discomfort to some environmentalists, who considered the event as a natural ‘massacre’.
Former mayor Augusto Ramírez He was in charge of intervening and turning it into a tourist destination. At the time, it had 50 chairs and a giant screen where a flight was simulated and images of the city were shown as if one were in the air.
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