Shootdown of cash-transporting helicopter highlights ongoing high risk to commercial aircraft in Colombia’s Catatumbo region

Event

On 11 January 2019, a helicopter operated by Aerocharter Andina and transporting cash on behalf of Brink’s was set on fire and destroyed in a field in Hacarí municipality located in the Catatumbo region of Norte de Santander.

The helicopter had been fired upon while flying over