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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A twin-engine commercial plane crashed Saturday while taking off from the tiny Colombian island of Old Providence, killing eight people, including a 3-year-old boy, and injuring six other passengers, authorities said.
The West Caribbean Airways turboprop plane, a Czech-built Let-410, was carrying mostly tourists from the Caribbean island of Old Providence to another nearby Colombian island, San Andres, off the coast of Nicaragua, said Martin Gonzalez, spokesman for Aerocivil, the civil aviation agency.
"It had just taken off when some type of technical problem apparently happened, and it crashed at the edge of the runway," Gonzalez said.
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