The chief of the airport in the city of Trinidad says Roberto Yanez was trying to land as strong winds gusted across the town of Santa Rosa in a jungle region of eastern Bolivia. David Pedraza says the Cessna crashed yesterday a half-kilometer short of the runway.
The plane was carrying a Bolivian family that has been living in Spain. Two children are among the dead. Yanez is a prominent rancher and was in Bolivia's Senate for several years.