Four killed as US contracted counter-drug aircraft crashes in Caribbean

MIAMI, CMC – The United States Southern Command, which overseas US military operations in the Caribbean and Latin America, says a US-contracted detection and monitoring aircraft has crashed into the Caribbean Sea, killing four of its six crewmembers.
The Southern Command, otherwise known as Southcom, said that the crash took place near the Colombia-Panama border, killing three Americans and a Panamanian Air National Guardsman.
It said two Americans survived the crash, and were rescued by Colombian military forces and taken to a hospital in Bogota, the capital.