Bolivia: Crashed jet’s company left trail of unpaid debts
LA PAZ, Bolivia — The airline involved in last week’s crash in the Andes left a trail of unpaid bills that forced Bolivia’s air force to seize two planes and briefly jail one of the company’s owners, Bolivian Defense Minister Reymi Ferreira said Monday.
The revelation added to a string of human errors and unsettling details about the Bolivian-based LaMia charter company’s checkered past that experts say should have served as warnings to aviation authorities.