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Radio Caracol said the flight recorder was found and civil aeronautics specialists were analyzing its data.
"I heard explosions and I thought there was some problem with transformers in the electrical station, but I looked up and saw a plane explode in the air, and bodies and pieces of luggage were falling," another witness, Mario Vasquez, said.
The airline refused comment on the reports of explosions. Avianca spokesperson Patricia Duarte said the plane carried 101 passengers and a crew of six, and that all were killed. Their nationalities were not immediately known.
Leal said one piece of the jet was found six miles away. The RCN radio network said a body was found a half-mile from the main crash site. Several looters were caught removing. rings and gold chains from the corpses, policesaid.
But there were still more conditions to be met. Posters demanding free elections and an end to one-party rule were plastered over the windows of the shops, hotels, and restaurants that closed to observe the strike.