

Both the engine and the propeller were replaced, and the aircraft passed all the inspections by the Colombian civil aviation authority,” Lopez told CNN.ĬNN reached out to the Civil aviation authority and is awaiting comment. “Those planes are all insured, we repaired it and put it back to fly.

“It’s true that plane crashed in the jungle, but nothing happened,” said Giselle Lopez, owner of Avianline Charter’s SAS, the charter company that owns the aircraft, which also has a contract for air ambulance services in the Amazon region. Aviation engineers had to replace the entire front and left wing of the aircraft to make it airworthy again. The three crew on the plane at that time only suffered minor injuries and were rescued by indigenous scouts, however the plane suffered considerable damage to the propeller, engine and wing section, the report states.
