La Prensa Latina: Sacaba, Bolivia, Mar 24 (efe-epa).- A woman was killed and her brother injured Wednesday when a Bolivian air force jet crashed into their home in Sacaba, a city of some 150,000 people in the central province of Cochabamba. There were no other casualties, authorities said. Witnesses said they saw two people eject…
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Edwin Tumiri, a survivor of the Chapecoense plane crash, escapes death again
Marca: Involved in bus crash in Bolivia Edwin Tumiri, a survivor of the Chapecoense plane crash that killed 71 people, has seen his life flash before his eyes again. The former LaMia employee was involved in another travel accident on March 2, as a bus he was on fell 150 metres down a hillside in Bolivia. Local…
Bolivian Flight Attendant Who Survived Plane Crash Now a Model and Author
Latin American Herald Tribune reports: Bolivian Flight Attendant Who Survived Plane Crash Now a Model and Author LA PAZ – Former Bolivian flight attendant Ximena Suarez, the only woman to survive the 2016 crash of an airliner carrying Brazil’s Chapacoense soccer club, now parades down catwalks as a model and plans to publish a second…
Two Mass. men say they have found long-lost ‘black boxes’ in Bolivia
Astead W. Herndon reports for The Boston Globe: Two Mass. men say they have found long-lost ‘black boxes’ in Bolivia Searching for the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder of Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 in Bolivia were (from left) Jose Lazo, Peter Frick-Wright, Robert Rauch, Dan Futrell, and Isaac Stoner. For two…
4 dead, 3 vendors hurt after plane hits market in Bolivia
AP reports for CBS News: 4 dead, 3 vendors hurt after plane hits market in Bolivia LA PAZ, Bolivia — Police in Bolivia say a small plane crashed into a market in a town in the country’s north, killing all four people in the aircraft and injuring three vendors on the ground. The Cessna 206…
The Bolivian flight attendant who escaped unhurt in two plane crashes
Pagina Siete: The flight attendant who escaped unhurt in two plane crashes Eglin Nunez suffered a plane crash in February and one in July 2008, both in Beni. In 2010 she experienced a mishap during a landing in Prague, Czech Republic. [in the photo:Eglin Nunez exhibits an award received after the accidents]. “I never imagined…
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