An Avianca flight covering the Madrid-Bogotá route lands in the Azores due to technical failure

An Avianca airline flight that covered the route between Madrid and Bogotá, with 235 passengers on board, made an emergency landing on the Azores islands due to a technical failure, the company has reported.

“Flight AV11 Madrid-Bogotá, operated by the 787 aircraft with registration N780AV, was diverted to the Santa María airport, located in the Azores of Portugal, after presenting a technical indication,” the company detailed in a statement.

The information added that the plane “landed at 8:11 p.m. local time (7:11 p.m. GMT) with its 235 passengers and crew without incident.”

To transfer passengers to Bogotá, Avianca will have an additional operation which will be confirmed in the next few hours, said the company, which did not give more details about what happened.

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