A small passenger plane carrying 15 people, including two prominent politicians, has crashed in the mountains of northeastern Colombia, near the Venezuelan border, killing everyone on board. The plane took off from the Colombian border city of Cúcuta and lost contact with air traffic control shortly before it was due to land in nearby Ocana around noon (1700 GMT). (Photo by Schneyder Mendoza / AFP via Getty Images)‘There are no survivors,’ said an official, speaking to AFP. The plane took off from the Colombian border city of Cúcuta and lost contact with air traffic control shortly before it was due to land in nearby Ocana around noon (1700 GMT). Authorities are investigating the cause of the crash as Colombia mourns yet another aviation tragedy in its difficult mountain terrain.