“The tyre is what fell on top of us... my daughter is injured, she has a head wound,” she added. Colonel Pavel Tovar of the National Fire Department told reporters that “between 15 and 16 [dead] people have been counted” in the disaster. Money grab ‘a crime’Fatalities were recorded both at the airport and on the busy avenue where the plane crashed and struck several vehicles. Operations at El Alto International Airport, the second most important in Bolivia, were suspended. La Paz, at an altitude of 3650m and surrounded by Andean peaks, is the highest administrative capital in the world.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 28, 2026 17:29 UTC