Ecuador plane crashes with 92 aboard

QUITO, Ecuador (CNN) -- An Ecuadorean airplane carrying 92 people crashed Monday as it approached the northern city of Tulcan on the Colombian border, said a spokeswoman for TAME, Ecuador's national airline.

There was no word on survivors.

EXTRA INFORMATION Interactive: Recent plane crashes

The plane crashed in Ipiales, Colombia, which is in a rebel-controlled area, said TAME spokeswoman Toa Quirola.

The Boeing 727-100 departed Quito at about 10 a.m. ET en route to the northern Ecuadorean city of Tulcan, on the Colombian border, before continuing to its final destination, Cali, Colombia.

The pilot's last radio contact, minutes before the plane was scheduled to land in Tulcan at 11 a.m., did not indicate any problems, airline officials said.

Quirola said there were 83 passengers, seven crew members and two of the airline's technical and operations personnel on board the plane.

In April 1998, a Boeing 727-200 leased to TAME airlines crashed into a mountain near Quito three minutes after takeoff, killing all 53 people on board.

Boeing 727s were manufactured from 1964 until 1983.

--Journalists Rodolfo Munoz and Milagros Leono contributed to this report.