Fears are growing for a Satena airline aircraft after it lost communications with air traffic control in the North Santander. The HK4709 flight was travelling from Cucuta to Ocaña on Wednesday with 15 people on board. 

Air traffic control lost communication with the aircraft at approximately 12pm local time (5pm GMT), it is reported. The small aircraft was scheduled to land at 12.10pm local time at Aguas Claras Airport in Ocaña, the second-largest populated area in the North Santander department.  

Alarm was raised over the small aircraft, which is believed to have the capacity of carrying 19 passengers, after it failed to reach its destination.

The last location recorded by radar places the aircraft in an area between the municipalities of Hacarí and La Playa de Belén, in the Catatumbo region, El Heraldo reports.