Military Plane Crash in Colombia Kills 66

0:00On March 24th, a military transport plane crashed right after takeoff Monday in Porto Leguizamo, Colombia. It carried 128 people, mostly soldiers. The accident killed at least 66, injured dozens more, and left for missing. Officials ruled out any attack as the cause. The flight was taking troops to another town and put a mile province, a remote Amazon area near Ecuador and Peru. Locals quickly stepped up to help. Remove bodies to the townmort and treated the wounded at small clinics before airlifting them to larger hospitals. The defense minister called it a deeply painful loss for the whole country. The tragedy has renewed concerns over the military's outdated gear. President Gustavo Petro blamed red tape for slowing modernization and said underperforming officials need to be replaced. Investigators are still piecing together what happened, as families grieve and the focus turns to preventing future risks.