{"id":508975,"date":"2026-02-28T04:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508975\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:31:09","slug":"cargo-plane-carrying-money-crashes-in-bolivia-killing-at-least-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508975\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargo plane carrying money crashes in Bolivia killing at least 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cargo plane carrying money <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/plane-crash\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"crashed \">crashed<\/a> near Bolivia&#8217;s capital killing at least 15 people.<\/p>\n<p>About a dozen vehicles on a road were damaged and money bills were scattered on the ground an official said.<\/p>\n<p>Images on social media showed people rushing to collect the bills while police in riot gear tried to disperse them in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/south-america\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"South American \">South American<\/a> country.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/6e4d1891-7007-41d1-a8a6-f44a48ede2f6.jpeg\"   alt=\"A cargo plane carrying money crashed near Bolivia's capital leaving at least 15 people dead.\"\/>Police stand next to a plane that crashed in El Alto, Bolivia\/ (AP)<\/p>\n<p>Fire Chief Pavel Tovar did not clarify if the dead were in the plane or in the cars on the highway near the airport in La Paz.<\/p>\n<p>He said there were people injured.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft hit vehicles in the city of El Alto, which is adjacent to La Paz, before coming to rest in a field, according to images circulating on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Photos show a crumpled plane cockpit as well as a crushed car\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>There were conflicting reports of whether the plane was taking off or landing when it crashed.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tovar, at least 15 vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters managed to extinguish the flames engulfing the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/eada1874-f77e-40f6-ae66-235cfcb022d0.jpeg\"   alt=\"A cargo plane carrying money crashed near Bolivia's capital leaving at least 15 people dead.\"\/>About a dozen vehicles on a highway were damaged and money bills were scattered on the ground an official said. (AP)<\/p>\n<p>The plane, a Hercules aircraft belonging to the Bolivian air force, was transporting new banknotes from the Central Bank to other cities.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities suspended all flights to and from the terminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cargo plane carrying money crashed near Bolivia&#8217;s capital killing at least 15 people. About a dozen vehicles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-508975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}