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 75 people including all the footballers, 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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