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A plane carrying more than 80 people, including members of the Brazilian football team Chapecoense, has crashed in Colombia according to authorities.
Medellin international airport has confirmed that a charter aircraft was involved in a serious emergency on its way to the city.
There has been no confirmation of casualties at this moment although it there were 72 passengers and nine crew on board.
In a statement, the management and emergency team at José Maria Córdova airport in Rio Negro, Colombia, said there had been some survivors.
Local media reported that the plane was carrying members of the football team Chapecoense from Brazil - a fact later confirmed by airport authorities.
The team was scheduled to play Copa Sudamerica finals against Atletico Nacional on Wednesday in Medellin.

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Heard about this a moment ago, not much info yet.

 

its not good at all. its another tregedy in the football world.

 

Brazil Chapecoense football team in Colombia plane crash

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  81 people, only five survivers

 

I remember this happening to the Zambian team plane, maybe 20 years ago or so. Think they may have been African champions aswell.

Sad news this.....RIP

 

Young men living their dream, journalists and staff following as part of their job, fans following their team. Families with loved ones that will not return. A sad day for football. RIP

 

Alan Ruschel (right) has been confirmed as a survivor of the crash

 

Absolutely shocking. RIP.

 

Absolute tragedy, RIP

 

Bad Christmas present to their club and nation at large RIP

 

Terrible news, RIP to those that lost their lives and condolences to their families and friends.

 

Horrible news.

 

I've only just seen this.
Terrible.

 

I think there are 3 more players who haven't joined the trip and one of them is the manager's son. sad news

 

Being reported only two players survived, and the chances of them playing again must be slim.

 

Wembley tonight

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R.I.P

 

Such a tragedy. Since 2009 they've shot up from their 4th division and they were on their way to the biggest game of their lives. This should have been a time of celebration.

 

• 71 killed as Flight 2933 crashes on way to Medellin
• Plane was carrying 77 passengers and crew
• Total was originally announced as 81, but four did not board
• Passengers include Chapecoense football team from Brazil
• Seven found alive, one has since died
• Who are Chapecoense? A profile of the Brazilian football team

A chartered plane with a Brazilian first division football team crashed near Medellin while on its way to the finals of a regional tournament, killing 71 people, Colombian officials said. Six people survived.
The British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane, operated by a charter airline named LaMia, declared an emergency and lost radar contact just before 10pm on Monday (0300 GMT) because of an electrical failure, aviation authorities said.
The aircraft, which had departed from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, was transporting the Chapecoense team from southern Brazil for the first leg of a two-game Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional of Medellin, which was due to be played on Wednesday.
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Police officers and rescue workers search for survivors around the wreckage Credit: Luis Benavides/AP Photo
"What was supposed to be a celebration has turned into a tragedy," Medellin mayor Federico Gutierrez said from the search and rescue command centre.
The club said in a brief statement on its Facebook page that "may God accompany our athletes, officials, journalists and other guests travelling with our delegation".
Dozens of rescuers working through the night were initially heartened after pulling three passengers alive from the wreckage.
But as the hours passed, and heavy rainfall and low visibility grounded helicopters and complicated efforts to reach the mountainside crash site, the mood soured to the point that authorities had to freeze until dusk what was by then a body recovery operation.
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Chapecoense players before their Copa Sudamericana semifinal against Argentina's San Lorenzo on November 2 Credit: AFP
Among the survivors was a Chapecoense defender named Alan Ruschel, who doctors said suffered spinal injuries. Two goalkeepers, Marcos Danilo and Jackson Follmann, as well as a member of the team's delegation and a Bolivian flight attendant, also survived the crash. However Danilo died a short time later.
Also killed was Tiago de Rocha Viera, a 22-year-old forward. A video spread online of Viera's thrilled reaction to learning one week before the crash that his wife Graziele was pregnant with their first child.
The plane was carrying 68 passengers and nine crew members. Four other people listed on the flight manifest did not board the plane. Twenty-one of the passengers were journalists, of whom just one survived.
Local radio said the same British-made aircraft transported Argentina's national squad for a match earlier this month in Brazil, and previously had transported Venezuela's national team.
The black boxes were found, and could play a crucial role as investigators try and determine what caused the crash.
Alfredo Bocanegra, the head of Colombia's aviation authority, said initial reports suggest the aircraft was suffering electrical problems although investigators were also looking into an account from one of the survivors that the plane had run out of fuel about five minutes from its expected landing at Jose Maria Cordova airport outside Medellin.

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Watch | Chapecoense footballer is first survivor pulled from wreckage
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The team, from the small city of Chapeco, was in the middle of a fairy tale season. It joined Brazil's first division in 2014 for the first time since the 1970s and made it last week to the Copa Sudamericana final - the equivalent of the Uefa Europa League tournament - after defeating two of Argentina's fiercest squads, San Lorenzo and Independiente, as well as Colombia's Junior.
"This morning I said goodbye to them and they told me they were going after the dream, turning that dream into reality," a Chapecoense board member told TV Globo. "The dream was over early this morning."
The team is so modest that its 22,000-seat arena was ruled by tournament organizers too small to host the final match, which was instead moved to a stadium 300 miles (480 kilometers) to the north in the city of Curitiba.
"This is unbelievable, I am walking on the grass of the stadium and I feel like I am floating," Andrei Copetti, a team spokesman, told The Associated Press. "No one understands how a story that was so amazing could suffer such a devastating reversal. For many people here reality has still not struck."
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6:51AM
Crash survivors undergo operations in Colombia
Doctors are treating the six survivors of the crash, Reuters reports.
Only six people - three players, a journalist and two crew members - survived the disaster on Monday night, and they are all being treated at local hospitals.
Of the players, reserve goalkeeper Jackson Follmann was recovering from the amputation of his right leg, doctors said.
Defender Helio Hermito Zampier Neto remained in intensive care with severe trauma to his skull, thorax and lungs.
Fellow defender Alan Ruschel had spine surgery.
4:24AM
Military helicopter deployed to recover bodies
The Colombian Air Force deployed a military helicopter to retrieve bodies from the plane crash site near the municipality of La Union.
11:21PM
Authorities share image of black boxes
Investigators hope these two devices will help them determine what caused the crash.
10:31PM
Twenty journalists among crash victims
Twenty journalists are among the dead in the airline crash that devastated a Brazilian soccer team, officials said Tuesday.
Colombian aviation authorities said 21 of the 77 people aboard the charter flight were journalists covering the Chapecoense team from southern Brazil and its upcoming South American Cup match in Medellin, Colombia.
One journalist was among the six survivors: Rafael Valmorbida of Radio Oeste Capital, a station in the Brazilian city of Chapeco, where the team is based.
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A mass is held in Chapeco for victims of the crash Credit: Nelson Almeida/AFP
"We lost more than just a team," said the station's website. "We lost friends, partners, colleagues and family members."
10:19PM
Top Brazilian clubs offer to loan players to Chapecoense
Some of Brazil's top clubs say they want to give players to Chapecoense on a free loan for the 2017 season. They also say the club should not be relegated to the second division for three years as it recovers from the disaster.
Details of how this would work financially were not immediately floated.
In further homage, Brazilian champion Palmeiras has made a request to the Brazilian Football Confederation to wear Chapecoense's jersey in its last match of the season.
9:54PM
Business, schools close as Brazilian city plunged into mourning
Businesses closed and schools canceled classes in Chapeco as the small town in southern Brazil plunged into mourning on Tuesday over the loss of its soccer team, Chapecoense, in a plane crash in Colombia.
Hundreds of fans decked out in the club's green and white gathered at its stadium starting in the morning. Large groups remained quietly in the stands until late in day, staring past their banners at the empty green field as the sun beat down.
An improvised shrine outside the player's entrance to the stadium filled up with jerseys, flowers and candles. A poster celebrated, in a child's handwriting, the team's meteoric ascent into top-flight Brazilian soccer.
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Mourners gather in Chapeco
"They never tired of climbing and now they're in heaven," it read.
Chapecoense's improbable rise to competing for the Sudamericana Cup title had been an inspiration to the agricultural town of some 200,000 people in the remote interior of Santa Catarina state.
The dream ended suddenly when the team's plane crashed late on Monday outside the Colombian city of Medellin, where Chapecoense had been due to face local side Atletico Nacional in Wednesday's Cup final.
Most of the team's players were among the 75 people killed in the crash, Colombian authorities said, as well as local journalists and team officials.
"Our idea is to hold a collective wake here in our beloved stadium because everyone wants to give their support, to give an embrace," said Ivan Tozzo, the team's acting president.
9:50PM
Victim total reduced to 71 dead, 6 injured
Seventy-one people were killed and six survived in the crash, officials have now said, lowering the initial death toll by four.
"Search and rescue operations found 71 victims and six survivors," Colombia's disaster management agency, UNGRD, said in a statement.
The civil aviation authority had initially given a death toll of 75, but it later emerged that four people on the passenger manifest had not in fact boarded the plane.
8:22PM
Flight recorders recovered
Colombia's civil aeronautics agency says it has found the two flight recorders from the airplane.
The agency says in a Twitter message that both of the recorders have been recovered "in perfect condition." That could help determine what caused the British Aerospace 146 to crash.
LaMia, the Bolivian operator of the crashed plane, said on its website - which has since become inaccessible - that its three BAE 146s had a maximum range of around 2,965 kilometers. That's about the same as the distance between Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and Medellin, the route the plane was flying when it went down. The range
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Chapecoense plane crashed 'due to lack of fuel after pilot didn't tell authorities until it was too late'

The doomed Brazilian football team plane crashed because it didn't have enough fuel and the pilot didn't confess until it was too late, it has been claimed.
LaMia Flight 2933 plunged into mountains just 30km from its final destination of Medellin airport in Colombia.
Seventy-one of those board - including players from Chapecoense FC and twenty journalists - were killed.
Flight data shows the plane circled several times before the disaster after declaring an electrical failure.
It had been suggested the pilot Miguel Alejandro Quiroga Murakami may have heroically dumped fuel in a bid to prevent an explosion on impact.
But initial investigations into the crash suggest a much more tragic explanation.
The 2,972km flight path from Santa Cruz in Bolivia to Medellin was right at the edge of the aircraft's capacity.
It had been expected that if the plane ran low on fuel, it would stop in Bogota.
But this did not happen, so the plane would have been almost empty by the time it got to Medellin.
In another twist of fate, as Flight 2933 approached, the pilot was told another plane had requested priority landing due to a problem on board.
At around 9.30pm on Monday, Viva Colombia's flight FC8170 was given permission to land first by air traffic control.
Flight 2933 was instructed to circle at 21,000ft with other aircraft and told it was third or fourth in line to land, Colombian newspaper ElTiempo reports.
Minutes later, the pilot Mr Quiroga indicated he needed to land immediately due to lack of fuel and was given the green light.
But the flight then declared a total lack of power and the aircraft plunged from the sky in Cerro Gordo, Colombia.

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