A small plane crashed on Wednesday in a rural area of Norte de Santander province in northeast Colombia, killing all 15 people on board including a member of congress, authorities said. AdvertisementThe aircraft, a Beechcraft 1900 twin-propeller plane with registration number HK4709, took off at 11.42am local time from the airport in Cucuta, the department’s capital. It was bound for Ocana, a municipality surrounded by mountains, on a flight that typically lasts about 40 minutes. Funeral hearses carrying the bodies. Photo: AFPThe aircraft’s final contact with air traffic control came minutes after take-off, according to a statement released by Satena.