Brazilian Soccer Teams Plane Crashes In Colombia; 76 Dead

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Source: CBS/AP

At least 76 people have died after a chartered plane with a Brazilian first division soccer team crashed near Medellin while on its way to the finals of a regional tournament, the Associated Press reports. Five people survived.

The British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane, operated by a charter airline named LaMia, declared an emergency at 10 p.m. Monday because of an electrical failure, aviation authorities said.

The aircraft, which had departed from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, was transporting the Chapecoense soccer team to Medellin’s Jose Maria Cordova airport.

The team, from southern Brazil and which had started its journey in Sao Paulo, was scheduled to play Wednesday in the first of a two-game Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional of Medellin.

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1. Link to BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38140981

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2. So terrible

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3. Three players among the five survivors, reports say

The survivors were named by the Colombian disaster management agency as Alan Luciano Ruschel, Marcos Danilo Padilha and Jacson Ragnar Follmann. Passengers Rafael Correa Gobbato and Ximena Suarez also survived.

Amanda Ruschel, who is married to Alan Ruschel, the first player to be taken to hospital, said in an Instagram post that her husband was in a stable condition. “Thank God Alan is in the hospital, stable. We are praying for all of those who were not yet rescued and offer our support to all their relatives,” she wrote.



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/29/plane-carrying-brazilian-footballers-team-chapecoense-crashes-en-route-to-medellin

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4. Terrible tragedy... heart goes out to the victims and their families.

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5. Brazilian clubs offer to loan players to Chapecoense after plane crash

Brazilian clubs offer to loan players to Chapecoense after plane crash

• Majority of team died on their way to play match in Colombia
• Brazilian clubs also ask for club to be exempted from relegation

Reuters
Tuesday 29 November 2016 16.15 EST

Brazil’s top-flight football teams offered to loan players to Chapecoense for next season after the small southern club lost almost all their players in a plane crash in Colombia.

The teams also asked the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) on Tuesday to give Chapecoense a three-year exemption from relegation – the process through which teams are assigned to a lower classification if they do not perform well.

The Brazilian team were on their way to Medellín to play the Colombian side Atlético Nacional in the final of the Copa Sudamericana, South America’s equivalent of the Europa League, when the plane crashed into a hillside on Monday night.

“It is the minimum gesture of solidarity that is within our reach at this point in time but it is borne of the sincerest desire to reconstruct this institution and that part of Brazilian football that was lost today,” the statement said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/29/chapecoense-brazil-teams-offer-players