Pablo Escobar Plane Explosion

The explosion of the aircraft killed 107 people.

Pablo escobar plane explosion. During peak time at northern bogota s center 93 mall a remote controlled bomb placed in a stolen van was detonated outside a bookstore where young children were shopping for school supplies a presidential spokesperson said we have now had confirmation. Colombian drug lord pablo escobar s former chief hitman jhon jairo popeye velasquez has died of cancer today at the age of 57. Pablo escobar s hitman brags about bomb that killed 107 passengers in plane explosion. Jhon jairo velásquez vásquez aka popeye who was escobar s most trusted lieutenant has no regrets about bombing avianca flight 203 in 1989 that killed 107 people.

In early 1993 another one of pablo escobar s bombs killed 20 shoppers including four children and injured around 70 other victims. The boeing 727 leaving the colombian capital of bogota for cali exploded five minutes after take off killing 110. According to pablo escobar s brother escobar switched to cocaine smuggling when smuggling contraband cigarettes became dangerous to traffic. A bomb explosion in the passenger cabin of a domestic jetliner caused a crash last week near bogota that killed 111 people colombian authorities reported tuesday.

Avianca flight 203 was a colombian domestic passenger flight from el dorado international airport in bogotá to alfonso bonilla aragón international airport in cali colombia it was destroyed by a bomb over the municipality of soacha on november 27 1989. All 107 people on board as well as 3 people on the ground were killed. The bombing had been ordered by the medellín drug cartel. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube.

Pablo escobar and gonzalo. The specter of terrorism fell on a new continent when members of pablo escobar s cocaine trafficking organization the medellin cartel planted a bomb on avianca flight 203 bringing down the aircraft on november 27 1989. For almost two decades the medellin cartel processed. Velasquez served a life sentence after admitting to killing 300.

A colombian said to be the most feared assassin of the medellin drug cartel was convicted by a federal jury in brooklyn yesterday of blowing up an avianca jetliner over bogota in 1989.