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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