Colombian singer Yeison Jiménez among six killed in plane crash near Paipa

Colombian singer Yeison Jiménez among six killed in plane crash near Paipa

Event date: 2026-01-10

Six people were killed when a Piper PA-31 Navajo crashed in Boyacá department, Colombia, with local reports identifying regional music singer Yeison Jiménez among the dead, according to BNO News and a statement from Colombia’s Aerocivil. The aircraft went down in the area between Paipa and Duitama and was en route to Medellín.

The plane, registered as N325FA, was carrying six occupants: a pilot, a co-pilot and four passengers. BNO News reported that local media said all six on board were killed. Aerocivil said its Search and Rescue Coordination Center in Bogotá detected the aircraft’s emergency locator transmitter in the crash area, which prompted response efforts from national police and local emergency services.

The report does not establish a cause. Authorities had not immediately confirmed why the aircraft crashed. That matters because, at this stage, the verified facts are about the number of dead, the aircraft type and the location of the wreckage, not the mechanical or operational reason for the accident.

The inclusion of Yeison Jiménez in the victim list came from local media reports cited by BNO News. Jiménez was described as a major figure in Colombia’s regional popular music scene, known for widely streamed songs and a strong national following. The report also notes that he had spoken in an interview last year about recurring dreams involving a plane crash. That detail adds colour, but it is not needed to understand the news event itself and should be treated cautiously because it comes from an external interview reference rather than crash confirmation.

What can be stated confidently is that this was a fatal crash with no survivors among the six occupants. It happened on a Saturday in the Boyacá highlands, a region that sits away from Colombia’s main coastal and lowland air corridors and where mountainous terrain can complicate aviation emergencies.

The emergency locator signal gave rescuers a starting point, but the report does not specify how quickly teams reached the scene or whether weather, visibility, or pilot communication played a role. Those details remain unknown from the supplied evidence.

For Colombia’s regional music audience, the possible loss of Jiménez adds a public figure to an already tragic aviation disaster. For investigators, the immediate task is simpler and harder at once: recover the aircraft, identify the victims and determine why a flight carrying six people on a short domestic route did not arrive safely.