A military aircraft transporting indigenous passengers crashed deep in the Amazon jungle of Venezuela killing seven of the ten people on board, including members of the Yanomami community and medical personnel, according to a statement from the country’s Ministry of Defence.
The aircraft, operated by an Air Force unit dedicated to serving remote indigenous communities, went down in the southern state of Amazonas due to what officials described as a “technical failure.” Among the deceased was the co-pilot, while three military personnel, including the pilot, miraculously survived the crash.
The aircraft was en route to deliver members of the Yanomami tribe back to their ancestral lands—a region notoriously difficult to access without air support.
The tragic incident comes amid a string of fatal aviation accidents reported worldwide within the last month.
Just days earlier, on Thursday, a Russian Antonov-24 passenger plane carrying nearly 50 people crashed in the remote Amur region. Operated by Angara Airlines, the plane lost contact with radar en route to Tynda. Authorities reported no signs of survivors.
In Bangladesh, disaster struck on July 21 when a fighter jet plummeted into a school in Dhaka, killing at least 27 people—most of them children who had just been dismissed from class. The F-7 BGI aircraft, a Chinese-made fighter jet, left more than 170 others injured in what has become Bangladesh’s deadliest aviation incident in decades.
Earlier in the month, on July 1, tragedy also unfolded in India when an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner exploded in flames shortly after takeoff from New Delhi on a long-haul flight to London. The crash claimed more than 200 lives, marking one of the deadliest air disasters in the country’s history.
The string of aviation tragedies has raised renewed concerns about global air safety, especially in regions where infrastructure challenges and technical constraints may heighten risks.
