“We had to fly over, there was fuel, but it seems to me that It is irresponsible to have an authorized flight plan and in the air to find out that you still cannot landit is not the most prudent, “were the first words of Jorge ‘Tuto’ Quiroga, as soon as he put his feet on the Ariel Lea Plaza airport, Tarija.
For its part, Senator Zoya Zamora confirmed to El duty that Quiroga and her delegation arrived in the city of Tarija with a delay to participate in the closure of the campaign.
According to Zamora, the candidate with his wife and Juan Pablo Velasco, applicant to the vice presidency, They failed to land on the plane at 11 in the morning, as defined In the flight plan from El Alto (La Paz), because the control tower was not operating because Closed the Lea Plaza airport.
“I had to make efforts so that the regional chief of Naabol instructs to open the airportin order to allow the landing of the plane. When we arrive we learn that The airport is just opened at noon on Sundays“said the senator, daughter of the founding leader of the Left Revolutionary Front (FRI), Óscar Zamora Medinaceli.
He added that The second alternative was to descend on the IV track of the Bolivian Air Force Brigade (FAB)but it has no control tower and uses that of the airport, so it was ruled out.
The plane pilot in which he was ‘Tuto’ Quiroga, had evaluated a third option to land in an airport in Argentina that is close in distance to the capital of Tarijeña.
José Manuel Ormachea, candidate for senator for the Free Alliance, said that Quiroga’s life was put at risk because they did not allow the aircraft to land.
After this incident, the presidency candidate for the Free Alliance climbed into a truck at the airport to start a caravan to the atrium of the San Roque church, where the campaign closure is held in Tarija, seven days after the general elections.
Naabol’s discharge
“In relation to the versions spread on social networks about a supposed landing negative To an aircraft that transported Mr. Jorge Tuto Quiroga and his delegation to the Captain Oriel Lea Plaza de Tarija, Air Navigation and Bolivian Airports (Naabol) informs that These claims lack livelihoods“, says the first paragraph of the statement.
The note continues: “In this sense, the flight in question, operated by the company Aerost, registration CP-2673, type B190, He presented his flight plan today August 10 at 08:24took off at 09:54 and arrived in Tarija at 11:45 hours. In accordance with the provisions of the publication of Aeronautical Information (AIP), Official Public Access and Knowledge Document of all air and commercial aviation operators, the Captain Oriel Lea Plaza airport, on August 10 (Sunday), has a service schedule from 12:00 to 22:00 hob “.
In the statement it is reported that although The arrival occurred before the official start of operations (12:00), Naabol, in the protection of operational security and the integrity of the occupants, immediately arranged the early presence of technical and operational personnelperforming the necessary coordination to guarantee a safe landing.
“It is important to highlight that The pilot himself, already en route, acknowledged that he did not carry out the previous coordination corresponding to the flight Regarding the airfield service schedulesas established by aeronautical regulations, and thanked
expressly to Naabol staff for the efforts made to Attend your arrival outside the scheduled schedule. Said recognition was registered in official communications of the Air Navigation Unit, “they justified.
