No survivors found after Colombian plane crashes with 15 people on board, including lawmaker

Colombian authorities found no survivors after a plane with 13 passengers and two crew members crashed on Wednesday, the country’s Civil Aeronautics Authority told CNN.

Colombian congressman Diógenes Quintero was among those on board, according to the party that had nominated him for the House of Representatives.

Quintero’s communications team said it lost contact with him and his assistant after the plane disappeared. The last registered location on their phones was Camilo Daza airport in Cúcuta “before takeoff,” his team said.

Quintero had been a member of the national legislature since 2022 and was a representative of the “special peace constituencies,” one of 16 seats in Congress meant to represent victims of violence, as part of the 2016 peace accords with militants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

“Diógenes Quintero was a leader committed to his region, with a firm vocation for service and a deep sense of public responsibility,” Colombia’s U Party said.