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Wounded soldiers were airlifted from the crash site of a Colombian Air Force plane Monday (March 23) after the aircraft went down shortly after takeoff in the country's southern Amazon region, killing at least one person and injuring 77 others out of 125 people on board.

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00:01Wounded soldiers were airlifted from the crash site of a Colombian Air Force plane on Monday
00:06after the aircraft went down shortly after takeoff in the country's southern Amazon region,
00:11killing at least one person and injuring 77 others out of the 125 people on board.
00:18A King 350 aircraft transported three of the wounded soldiers to the Camilo Daza Military
00:24Air Transport Command Base in Bogota, where they were transferred to the military hospital.
00:29A separate Hercules, C-130, carried out a mass transfer of 48 injured soldiers on the Puerto
00:37Leguizamo to Bogota route.
00:39Upon arrival in the capital, ambulances were waiting on the runway to receive the wounded.
00:44The accident occurred as another Hercules C-130, built by Lockheed Martin, was taking off from
00:52Puerto Leguizamo near the border with Peru while transporting troops.
00:56The plane came down just one and a half kilometers from the runway, and ammunition on board detonated
01:02due to a fire on the aircraft.
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