Bolivia suspends LaMia airline license after Colombia crash
The Bolivian Civil Aviation Authority said Thursday it indefinitely suspended the operating license for LaMia airlines following the deadly crash of its charter plane in Colombia. Officials made the announcement without providing additional details. The LaMia charter flight crashed Monday night while approaching Medellín from Santa Cruz, Bolivia. All but six of the 77 people on board were killed. Colombian authorities said they positively identified all 71 people killed in the mountainside crash, which all but wiped out a soccer team from Brazil. They said that 64 of the passengers who perished were Brazilian, five were Bolivian, one was Paraguayan and one was Venezuelan. Authorities from those countries will now begin repatriating the remains, Colombian officials said.<br/>
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Bolivia suspends LaMia airline license after Colombia crash
The Bolivian Civil Aviation Authority said Thursday it indefinitely suspended the operating license for LaMia airlines following the deadly crash of its charter plane in Colombia. Officials made the announcement without providing additional details. The LaMia charter flight crashed Monday night while approaching Medellín from Santa Cruz, Bolivia. All but six of the 77 people on board were killed. Colombian authorities said they positively identified all 71 people killed in the mountainside crash, which all but wiped out a soccer team from Brazil. They said that 64 of the passengers who perished were Brazilian, five were Bolivian, one was Paraguayan and one was Venezuelan. Authorities from those countries will now begin repatriating the remains, Colombian officials said.<br/>
