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Bolivians detain boss of crash airline

BOLIVIAN prosecutors detained the head of the charter airline on Tuesday whose plane crash in Colombia last week wiped out a Brazilian football team.

Gustavo Vargas, a retired Bolivian air force general, was picked up in Santa Cruz along with a mechanic and secretary who worked at LaMia airline.

Prosecutors where probing whether negligence on the company’s part led to the disaster that killed 71 people.

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