The Aires 8250 flight was operated by the Colombian airline Aires, using a Boeing 737-700 passenger aircraft, which on a flight in the early hours of August 16, 2010, about 80 m from the runway of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport, in San Andrés, Colombia, suffers from the impact of lightning and broke into three pieces.[1]
According to Colonel Gustavo Barrero Barrero, commander of the Grupo Aéreo del Caribe de la Fuerza Aérea Colombiana (FAC), "the aircraft that was on the route Bogotá-San Andrés was going to land in the middle of a terrible electrical storm when a powerful lightning struck it and caused him to lose control at the threshold of runway 06''". Flight 8250, which departed El Dorado International Airport at around 12:07 (local time) was flying with 121 passengers and 6 crew. Upon landing, it broke into three parts.[1]