Air France Flight 422, on the way to Quito, failed to bank south as necessary and plowed into a mountaintop east of Bogota shortly after takeoff Monday, killing everyone aboard. The Boeing 727 was leased from an Ecuadorean company and flown by an Ecuadorean crew. Most of the people aboard were Ecuadorean or French.
53 Dead in Crash
Air France Flight 422, on the way to Quito, failed to bank south as necessary and plowed into a mountaintop east of Bogota shortly after takeoff Monday, killing everyone aboard. The Boeing 727 was leased from an Ecuadorean company and flown by an Ecuadorean crew. Most of the people aboard were Ecuadorean or French.
