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A plane crashed in Colombia, carrying 81 people, most of them football players and employees of the Brazilian club Chapecoense, who were heading to the final match of the Copa Sudamericana. The airliner, which took off from Brazil, made an intermediate landing in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, after which it headed for Medellin and crashed near the airport of this city. According to various sources, survived from six to ten people.

What happened?

The plane disappeared from the radar while approaching the airport of the Colombian city of Medellin on Monday, November 28, at 22:15 local time (06:15 Tuesday Moscow time). Subsequently, it became known that he crashed on the territory of the Colombian province of Antioquia, not far from the Rionegro River. According to preliminary data, the aircraft commander informed the controllers of Medellin Cordoba airport about the lack of fuel. The aircraft was given priority landing, but it was never able to land.

How many people were on board?

There were 72 passengers and nine crew members on board. Including football players of the Brazilian club "Chapecoense", members of the board of the team, representatives of the coaching staff, technical staff of the team, as well as journalists. Among the club's players are team captain Kleber Santana, who played four years for Atlético Madrid and Mallorca, forward Alejandro Martinuccio (he defended the colors of Villarreal in Spain), goalkeeper Marcelo Book (he played for Maritima in Portugal for six years and "Sporting").

Survivors reported...

Initial information: everyone on the plane died. However, it soon became known that survivors were found in the area of the crash, and 10 people were taken to local hospitals. Then they clarified that the rescuers found six survivors, one of them died on the way to the hospital. Rescue work continues at the crash site. A list of all passengers has been posted on social media.

What is the main version of what happened?

The plane could have crashed due to lack of fuel.

What is known about the football team?

Chapecoense is based in the city of Chapeco, located in the state of Santa Catarina in the south of the country. The club is quite young by football standards, founded in 1973. The debut in Brazil's top division - Serie A - took place in 1978, but a year later the team lost its residence in the country's football elite and was able to return there only 35 years later - in 2014.

For two seasons in a row (2014, 2015), the team was on the verge of relegation, but remained in Serie A, finishing 15th and 14th respectively, and the current championship turned out to be the most successful for the team - one round before the end of Chapecoense with 52 points located on the ninth line and has long protected itself from being demoted in the class. On the eve of the club on the road lost to Palmeiras, which in a meeting with Chapecoense ahead of schedule won the title of champion of Brazil.

Where were the players going?

The players flew to the Colombian city of Medellin, where the first (of two) final match of the Copa Sudamericana against the Colombian team Atlético Nacional was to take place. The game was scheduled for the evening of November 30 (night of December 1 Moscow time).

Air crashes involving athletes

History knows several cases of death sports teams in plane crashes. In 2011, during takeoff, a Yak-42D aircraft crashed near the Yaroslavl Tunoshna airport. hockey club"Locomotive". 26 players of the main team, five coaches and six people from the team's technical staff were killed.

In 1979, two Tu-134 aircraft collided over Dneprodzerzhinsk, one of which contained 14 football players, the second coach, administrator and doctor of the Tashkent Pakhtakor football club. All of them died, in total, the tragedy claimed the lives of 178 people.

21 years earlier, an Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador with the players and coaches of the famous football club Manchester United on board crashed while taking off in Munich. Eight Red Devils players, the club's secretary and two coaches were killed. Nine players survived, including Bobby Charlton, who later became a Manchester United legend. Team head coach Matt Busby also managed to escape.

In 1950, while landing at the Sverdlovsk airport "Koltsovo", the plane "Li-2" crashed. There were 13 members on board. hockey team Air Force and 6 crew members. All died. By a lucky chance, Vsevolod Bobrov, the main star of Russian football and hockey in the 1950s, missed this plane.

On the night of November 29, a regional airliner with football players from the Brazilian club Chapecoense crashed in Colombia. Club employees and journalists were also on board. 76 people were killed, five more rescuers were taken to the hospital.

The plane crashed for an unknown reason, before reaching 30 kilometers from Medellin airport in Colombia

Liner LMI2933 took off from the Bolivian Santa Cruz de la Sierra at 18:18 pm on November 28 local time (1:18 Moscow time). Five hours later (6:00 Moscow time) the pilots reported dispatchers about problems on board related to the power supply. The airport cleared the runway for an emergency landing, and the aircraft, according to FlightRadar24 data, began flying in circles to run out of fuel.

After another 15 minutes, the plane crashed near the city of La Union. It broke into two pieces on impact with the ground. What exactly caused the crash is unknown. Rescuers have not yet found the flight recorders; Exploration work has been suspended due to heavy rain. The version that the plane could run out of fuel is not ruled out.

Nearly all of them died in the crash. football team"Chapecoense"

The Brazilian club was flying to Medellin for the final match of the Copa Sudamericana, in which Chapecoense was supposed to meet the Colombian Atlético Nacional. There were 22 players on the plane. In addition, there were 25 more representatives of the club on board (coaches, doctors, managers), as well as data Caracol Radio, three "friends of the club". Together with Chapecoense, 22 journalists flew to the match. According to the latest data, 76 people died.

Five people survived

Rescuers took four passengers and a flight attendant to the hospital. The condition of two victims is estimated as stable, the surviving football player Alan Ruschel is conscious. In addition to Ruschel, goalkeepers Marcos Danilo and Jackson Folman survived the crash. Brazilian journalist Rafael Hensel also managed to escape. Flight attendant Jimena Suarez survived from the crew.

The Civil Aviation Authority also reported that flight engineer Erwin Tumiri survived the crash. Local media learned that the defender Elio Neto could also survive the fall. Officially, the police reported that only five people survived, another victim died on the way to the hospital.

The team was not supposed to take this flight.

According to El Tiempo, shortly before departure, the Brazilian Civil Aviation Authority banned the Chapecoense from flying to Medellin on a charter, which forced the team to book a commercial flight.

Football clubs around the world expressed their condolences to the Brazilian team

One of the first about solidarity announced to Atlético Nacional, for the match with which Chapecoense flew. Words of condolences came from other clubs and players, including Russian. The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) has already announced that all games will be suspended for the time being.

All thoughts of Manchester United are with the Chapecoense and those affected by the tragedy in Colombia.

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Colombian plane crashed black boxes found

The flight recorders of the plane that crashed on November 29, 30 kilometers from Medellin airport, have been found in Colombia. This is reported by the Civil Aviation Authority of Colombia.

The black boxes are in good condition, the department said.

Plane crashed in Colombia needed to land due to lack of fuel

Before the crash, the pilot of the LMI2933 flight that crashed in Colombia, Miguel Quiroga, demanded the air traffic controllers to land due to lack of fuel. This was told by sources of the newspaper El Tiempo.

By the time it crashed, the plane was already in its third holding loop near the airport, as landing priority had been assigned to another flight from Bogotá, which had previously reported instrument problems.

The surviving flight attendant Jimena Suarez also spoke about the lack of fuel. At the same time, in the official preliminary report on the disaster, the Colombian authorities stated that the pilot reported to the dispatchers only about problems with the electronics.

Rescuers also finally established the number of victims of the disaster. Only 68 passengers were on board, not 72 as previously reported. Four people missed the flight. Of the 77 passengers and crew members, seven survived the crash, and one survivor subsequently died in hospital.

Sources say that the pilot of the LaMia flight, Miguel Alejandro Quiroga Murakami, continuously raised his voice to land due to lack of fuel, and then directed the plane towards the airport (Spanish).EL TIEMPO

On board the passenger liner, which crashed in Colombia, there were 81 people along with the crew, including the players of the Brazilian football club. During the search and rescue operation, survivors were found, but the exact number is not yet known.

The messages that began to appear in the first hours after the crash gave hope. There are survivors. True, for a long time they could not give exact numbers. Later, the first names appeared. So, one of the Colombian radio stations reported that among the survivors was Alan Ruschel, the defender of the Chapecoense football team. He has a broken hip and a head injury. The goalkeeper Danilo Padilla and one of the flight attendants also survived.

“Soon the doctors will bring the surviving stewardess, her condition is stable. It is very difficult to get to the crash site, ordinary cars will not reach there. It's great that there are survivors, there are a lot of them, but we can't say how many exactly,” said one of the rescuers.

Then the information about a large number of survivors was refuted by the authorities. Only six were taken to the hospital. Already in the hospital, one of the patients died. But a few hours later - another urgent message from Colombian radio: "Authorities confirm the discovery of another survivor." At the same time, they say that it is Brazilian football player Elihu Zampierre No.

According to official figures, 75 people died. In total, there were 72 passengers and nine crew members on board the crashed aircraft.

Here on the video frames you can see how the liner disappears from the radar screens. The plane was bound for Medellin, the second largest city in Colombia and its industrial capital. Football players of the Chapecoense club flew there to play for the Copa Sudamericana with the local Atlético Nacional. The match was scheduled for tomorrow.

The footage posted on YouTube was filmed at the airport of departure in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. On them, the players are preparing to land. Footage captured by survivor Alan Ruschel inside the plane has also surfaced. He shows the passengers sitting next to him. There is also a photo taken today in the locker room of the team. There are three players on it who did not fly to the game in Colombia.

The mayor of Medellin, Federico Gutierrez, today addressed with words of condolences to the families and friends of the victims.

“It is very sad to confirm such information. All that can be done now is to help the work of doctors and rescuers. This is truly a tragedy. This is hard to imagine. We want to express our support to the families of the fallen football players from Brazil,” said the mayor

Local media say that there was bad weather in the disaster area. According to the administration of the airport where the plane departed, the crew reported the emergency at ten o'clock in the evening local time. In Moscow at that time it was six in the morning. The crew announced a malfunction in electrical equipment.

In Colombia, near Medellin, a plane crashed with 72 passengers, among whom were footballers from the Brazilian club Chapecoense, who were to take part in the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana against the Colombian Atlético Nacional.

Right now, 75 deaths are known. Known full list people who got on board - in addition to the players and the crew of the aircraft (there were 9 crew members), the leaders of Chapecoense were present, coaching staff, technical staff, journalists and honored guests. Among the passengers was the son of Paulo Paixao, former coach CSKA in physical training.

What team crashed?

Chapecoense is a little-known team in Russia, there are no players familiar to our fans playing for it. Chapecoense languished at the bottom for a long time, in Serie D, left it in 2009, and in 7 years reached the final of the South American Cup. This fall, Chapecoense reached such a high point for the first time in history. The match in Colombia was to be the most important in club history ...

How did it happen?

Citing Colombian sources, the Brazilian Globo reports that the plane lost contact with the ground shortly after midnight and crashed 30 km before its scheduled arrival. Controllers lost contact with the pilots as the plane flew over the cities of La Seja and Aberhorral. The missing aircraft began flying at 15:35 local time from Sao Paulo, landing in Eastern Bolivia, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The plane crashed in the city of La Union, 30 km from Medellin.

It did not explode largely thanks to the efforts of the crew - the pilots knew that the plane was running out of fuel and circled over the area. If not for this, the explosion would have been inevitable.

The first pictures have already been received from the scene.

Why did this happen?

Mayor of the City of La Seja Elkin Ospina stated that the cause of the plane crash was a lack of fuel. Another version, in an official release from the aviation authorities, says that the plane crashed due to electronics failure.

What was the team flying?

The Chapecoense flew on charter aircraft CP-2933. At the beginning of the month, the Argentina national team flew on it.

During the fall, the plane split in half. It is important that the SR-2933 has already suffered 10 air crashes, and most of them during the landing approach.

What do they say at the scene?

The rescue operation at Medellin airport is carried out by more than 90 rescuers from nearby cities - La Union, Rionegro, El Carmen de Vibroal and La Seja. Heavy rain complicates the situation. A state of emergency has been declared in the city, and Air Force helicopters are searching for surviving passengers. "It's hard to find survivors, it's wooded," says Hugo Botero Lopez, Mayor of La Union.

“We are working with local authorities in connection with the emergency situation that occurred with the Chapecoense aircraft,” the airport tweeted.

What do they write in Brazil?

Chapecoense published a short message on their official Facebook page: “Given the conflicting reports coming from various journalistic sources regarding the crash of the plane carrying the Chapecoense team players, we refrain from commenting and await official statements from the Colombian air authorities. May God be with our athletes, leaders, journalists and other members of the delegation.”
Flamengo's official twitter added the Chapecoense logo to their avatar and wrote: "The whole nation is with you."

Are there survivors?

Yes. Protector rushed to La Seja hospital Alan Ruschel rescued from the wreckage of the aircraft. It is reported that Alan has multiple fractures of bones, hips, lacerations of the head. In the hospital, he asked the doctors to keep his wedding ring, asked about the condition of loved ones. His wife, Amanda Ruschel, wrote on her Instagram: "Thank God Alan is in the hospital in a stable condition."

The second survivor is the Chapecoense goalkeeper Danilo Padilla. It is surprising that before the flight, Rushel posted his photo from the board on Instagram - just with Danilo. Third - Jackson Vollmann. FROM serious injury head hospitalized defender Neto.

Another survivor already taken to the hospital is a flight attendant Jimena Suarez.

Another 9 Chapecoense players, according to Globo Esporte, did not fly to the match and avoided a plane crash.