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Yeison Jiménez, his team, killed in plane crash

The crash killed six people including Jiménez and his team while traveling for a performance, with an investigation underway into a possible runway overrun.

  • On Jan. 10, Colombian singer/songwriter Yeison Jiménez and five team members died in a plane crash en route to Medellín, Colombia's Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics announced.
  • Video shown on Colombian news captured the takeoff and people shouting `it's run out of runway`, while investigators have opened a probe and officials have not given a cause.
  • Six people on board were killed, including manager Jefferson Osorio, Juan Manuel Rodríguez, Óscar Marín, Weisman Mora and pilot Hernando Torres; Jiménez, 34, left a wife and three children.
  • The singer's organization posted on Instagram that it deeply regrets his death, and Colombian fans and the música popular community said his death shocked Colombia.
  • In 2024 Jiménez sold out Bogotá's Movistar Arena three times, drawing more than 40,000 fans, and had a second El Campín show scheduled for March 28, underscoring his recent prominence in música popular.
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The death of Yeison Jimenez shakes the music world: the Colombian musician died at the age of 34 in a plane crash. Did the singer, who was called Yeison Orlando Jimenez Galeano by full name, anticipate his death?

It was on Saturday, January 10, this year that Yeison Jiménez , a popular musician from Colombia, died after the plane in which he was traveling along with his team collapsed a few minutes after having taken off. Days after the fatal incident, the video that captured the exact moment of the crash was leaked on social networks, as well as the images of how the bodies were left burnt. According to police information, the air crash occurred around …

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Colombian musician Yeison Jimenez died in a plane crash last Saturday in central Colombia. In a recent interview, the 34-year-old artist shared a dramatic dream with listeners – he confessed that he had dreamed of a plane crash in which he himself died. In an interview on December 20th, Yeison Jimenez, a musician and music show judge, recounted that he had dreamed of his own death in a plane crash that was widely reported in the media. The dream…

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alertabogota.com broke the news in on Sunday, January 11, 2026.
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