11-year-old girl dies of head injuries, 2nd to die from plane crash on Colombian resort island

Girl dies of injuries from Colombian plane crash

BOGOTA, Colombia — An 11-year-old girl injured when a jetliner carrying 131 people crashed on Colombia’s San Andres Island last month has died, raising the accident’s death toll to two.

Carlos Hernandez, deputy scientific director at Simon Bolivar Hospital in Bogota, says Maria Camila Angarita could not recover from multiple head traumas and died Wednesday.

He told Caracoal TV news that the girl had been in a coma since being taken to Colombia’s capital following the Aug. 16 crash.

The Aires airlines Boeing 737-700 slammed into the ground short of the runway on San Andres Island. The only fatality had been a 72-year-old women, a low death toll authorities called miraculous.

Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the crash.