Jet breaks apart during landing in Colombia
National police said 124 people were injured, many of them scattered on the darkened runway when emergency personnel arrived in the predawn hours. Six people, including an 18-month-old boy, were not injured, the national police said.
Some of the patients are in critical condition, said Robert Sanchez, director of Hospital Amor de Patria.
A list released by the Aires airline says 124 people were treated at two local hospitals. Four patients at Amor de Patria required surgery and another person at the hospital was in "reserved" condition, the airline said. Amor de Patria treated 101 victims while 23 were tended to at Clinica Villareal.
An 11-year-old girl suffered severe head and face trauma, Sanchez told CNN en Español. Doctors also were having difficulty controlling internal bleeding in a man with pelvic injuries, the hospital director said.
The most seriously injured were being transported aboard an air ambulance to Bogota, the nation's capital, Sanchez said.
There were 131 people -- 121 adult passengers, four minors and six crew members -- aboard the Boeing 737-700 jet when it crashed around 1:49 a.m., national police said.
Police identified the passenger killed as Amar Fernandez de Barreto. The passenger manifest, which goes by last name first, lists a Barreto Fernandez Paola Andrea. According to health officials, Barreto, who was in her 70s, died not directly in the crash but of a heart attack on the way to the clinic.
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