On Feb. 1, a Boeing 727 plane carrying more than 150 passengers crash-landed in a flooded region on the outskirts of the Bolivian city of Trinidad with no death reported, according to news from La Paz, Bolivia.

One of the pilots suffered a clavicle fracture and some passengers suffered minor bruises, it is reported.

The aircraft, flown by airline Lloyd Aereo Boliviano (LAB), made the emergency landing in an open field recently flooded by heavy rainfalls, some 3.3 kilometers away from the Trinidad airport.

Bolivian senator Paolo Bravo, who survived in the emergency landing, told Erbol radio network that the motors turned off and that they were ordered to get in imminent "crash positions."

He added that the plane started jolting and it landed on its belly.

Officials said all the airplane passengers and crew members abandoned the damaged plane on their own feet. Some of the passengers and crew members received medical attention in the German Busch Hospital and in Military Social Security Corporation (Cossmil) in Trinidad.

"The crew members did not suffer any problem and there is no blood," said LAB's operations chief Gustavo Viscarra, adding the plane had been rented by Transporte Aereo Militar (TAM).

"The airplane has minimum damages, there is no structural damage, there was not any fire nor smoke. It was a forced landing planned by the pilot and it was not caused by our enterprise's negligence nor lack of maintenance of our airplanes," said Vizcarra.

Airport and Auxiliary Aerial Navigation Service experts said that maybe the mud and flood in the field absorbed the shocks during the forced landing.

Erbol radio network reported that the plane's right wing is broken.

The plane was heading from La Paz to the northern Cobija city, capital of Pando Department. Storms forced it to turn away from its destination. It then headed some 590 kilometers south to the eastern lowland city of Trinidad and was five kilometers short of the runway when the pilot was forced to make the emergency landing.

Some sources said there were 156 passengers on board while the airline said the figure was 151. The plane's original takeoff in La Paz had been delayed for an hour due to unspecified technical problems, said Abdon Procel, spokesman for the Superintendent of Transportation.

Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, Bolivia's former state airline, was privatized in 1996 but has been on the brink of bankruptcy in recent years. The airline rents some planes to operate.