2 dead after Canadian survey aircraft crashes high in the Andes in Colombia
BOGOTA – Authorities said today they have located a Canadian-registered aircraft that crashed high in the Andes in northeast Colombia. Two people aboard, both Canadians, were killed.
Rescue workers struggled over the weekend to reach the twin-engine Piper PA-31 Navajo because of poor visibility at the remote, high-altitude site where it crashed on Saturday.
It’s not clear what led to the accident involving the plane, whose registry matches one belonging to Regina-based Oracle Geoscience International, which provides aerial survey services to the mining industry.
Civil aviation authority spokesman Uriel Bedoya Correa identified the victims as Peter Moore, a co-founder of the company, and Ribeiro Neville, who was registered as the plane’s pilot.
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