On the afternoon of this Friday, a community of the municipality of Solitude (Atlantic) reported the falling from a helicopter
The facts were presented in the vicinity of an old institution of higher education and Transelca, an electric power generating company based in this sector of the metropolitan area of Barranquilla.
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To the place of the accident, located in the neighborhood El Porvenir, The municipal firefighters arrived, who preliminarily indicate that three people were injured and no fatalities were confirmed: it is a pilot, co-pilot and an individual.
One of the injured was identified as Karim Nader Abu Naba’a, known as ‘Prince Karim’. As the newspaper EL TIEMPO learned unofficially, ‘Prince Karim’ is a native of Florida (United States) and is the son of an oil businessman of Arab origin, Mustafa Abu Naba’a.
The aircraft caught fire after impact on a mounted area, which generated a smoke screen that could be seen from a great distance, as recorded by neighbors of the sector through videos.
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For the above, heto Technical Directorate of Accident Investigation of the Civil Aeronautics of Colombia presented a brief statement explaining that it will investigate the fact.
“The Technical Directorate of Accident Investigation of the Civil Aeronautics appointed a team of experts to collect evidence to establish the causes of the accident of the Bell 206 helicopter, registration HK-4750, which occurred this afternoon in Soledad, Atlántico”, reported this unit.
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