Brazil has declared three days of mourning following the crash of a passenger plane in Colombia. Surviving passengers found at the site of an airliner crash in Colombia What plane crashed today in Colombia
On the night of Monday to Tuesday, Moscow time, a plane crash occurred in Colombia near Medellin airport. There was a Brazilian team on board the airliner "Chapecoense" flying to the final match of the Copa Sudamericana with Colombia Atlético Nacional. "SE" provides the main facts of the tragedy.
The plane disappeared from radar screens at 22.15 local time. Later it became known that the plane crashed in Colombia in the province of Antioquia. The flight crew informed dispatchers at Medellin Cordoba airport about a lack of fuel. The flight received emergency landing priority but was unable to land.
On board the plane was 81 people - 72 passengers and 9 crew members. Among the passengers were the Brazilian team Chapecoense, flying to the final match of the Copa Sudamericana with the Colombian Atlético Nacional, coaching staff, technical staff, and journalists.
According to official data, it was discovered 6 survivors, including three football players - defender No, goalkeeper Jackson and defender Alana Ruschela.
One of the possible causes of the plane crash is a lack of fuel.
Football club "Chapecoense"(literal translation of the name - Football Association of the city of Chapeco) was founded on May 10, 1973 when the clubs merged "Atlético Chapecoense" And "Independente", five-time Santa Catarina State champion (1977, 1996, 2007, 2011, 2016), two-time Santa Catarina State Cup winner (1979, 2006), Serie B silver medalist (2013), Serie C bronze medalist (2012), bronze medalist series D (2009).
The Avro RJ-85 is a commercial mid-size jet aircraft produced by British Aerospace (UK) from 1983 to 2003. The liner carrying Chapecoense was in operation for 17 years. It is also reported that the same plane transported the Argentina national team to the match with Brazil (0:3) in the 2018 World Cup qualifying tournament.
Brazil has declared three days of mourning, and the state of Santa Catarina has declared 30 days of mourning. The celebration of Christmas and New Year is in question.
Rescuers discovered the "black box" of the crashed plane.
The condition of the survivors is assessed as serious.
Football - "Pass from abroad"
Ex-mentor of CSKA Zico paid tribute to the victims of today's disaster near Medellin by posting a black square on his Instagram. The legendary football player's message began with the phrase "I have never lost so many friends."
Football - "Pass from abroad"
Head coach of Atlético Nacional Reynaldo Rueda said his team flew the plane that crashed today six times.
I deeply regret the loss of all passengers, including the Chapecoense. I especially regret the death of the crew, who were well known to us. We flew with them six times. The last time we flew on this plane was on November 3 from Asuncion, returning from a match with Cerro Porteño. This is all very difficult to accept.
Football - "Pass from abroad"
The Colombian Civil Aviation Department released an official statement regarding the death of the plane carrying the Brazilian Chapecoense. At the moment, 75 dead and six survivors are known. All of them were taken to the hospital.
70% of the bodies were found in the fuselage, 30%, including survivors, were found near the aircraft. 150 people were involved in the search operation. The black box has not yet been discovered.
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Terek expressed its condolences.
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Young Chapecoense fan.
On the night of November 29, a regional airliner carrying players from the Brazilian club Chapecoense crashed in Colombia. Club employees and journalists were also on board. 76 people died, five more were taken to hospital by rescuers.
The plane crashed for an unknown reason before reaching 30 kilometers from Medellin airport in Colombia.
The airliner LMI2933 took off from the Bolivian Santa Cruz de la Sierra at 18:18 pm on November 28 local time (1:18 Moscow time). In five hours (6:00 Moscow time) the pilots reported dispatchers about problems on board related to power supply. The airport cleared the runway for an emergency landing, and the plane began flying in circles to run out of fuel, according to FlightRadar24 data.
Another 15 minutes later the plane crashed near the city of La Union. It broke into two pieces when it hit the ground. What exactly caused the disaster is unknown. Rescuers have not yet found the flight recorders; Search efforts have been suspended due to heavy rain. It is possible that the plane may have run out of fuel.
Almost the entire Chapecoense football team died in the disaster.
The Brazilian club was flying to Medellin for the final match of the Copa Sudamericana, in which Chapecoense was to meet with the Colombian Atlético Nacional. There were 22 football players on the plane. In addition, there were 25 more club representatives on board (coaches, doctors, managers), as well as data Caracol Radio, three “friends of the club”. 22 journalists flew with Chapecoense 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 the two victims is assessed 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. The only survivor of the crew was flight attendant Ximena Suarez.
The Civil Aviation Authority also reported that flight engineer Erwin Tumiri survived the crash. Local media learned, that defender Elio Neto could also survive the fall. Officially, the police reported that only five people survived, and another victim died on the way to the hospital.
The team should not have been on this flight
According to El Tiempo, shortly before departure, the Brazilian Civil Aviation Authority banned Chapecoense from chartering to Medellin, forcing 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 at Atlético Nacional, with whom Chapecoense was flying to a match. 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 now.
Manchester United's thoughts are with Chapecoense and those affected by the tragedy in Colombia.
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Black boxes from crashed plane in Colombia found
The flight recorders of the plane that crashed on November 29, 30 kilometers from Medellin airport, have been found in Colombia. This was reported by the Colombian Civil Aviation Authority.
The black boxes are in good condition, the department said.
Plane that crashed in Colombia required landing due to lack of fuel
Before the disaster, the pilot of flight LMI2933 that crashed in Colombia, Miguel Quiroga, loudly demanded from air traffic controllers to land due to lack of fuel. Sources of the newspaper El Tiempo told about this.
By the time of the fall, the plane was already making its third waiting circle near the airport, since landing priority was assigned to another flight from Bogota, which had previously reported problems with its instruments.
Surviving flight attendant Jimena Suarez also spoke about the fuel shortage. However, in the official preliminary report on the crash, Colombian authorities stated that the pilot reported to dispatchers only about problems with electronics.
Rescuers also finally established the number of victims of the disaster. There were only 68 passengers on board, not 72 as previously reported. Four people missed their flight. Of the 77 passengers and crew members, seven survived the disaster; one survivor subsequently died in hospital.
Sources say the pilot of the LaMia flight, Miguel Alejandro Quiroga Murakami, continuously asked in a raised voice to land due to lack of fuel, and then directed the plane towards the airport (Spanish).EL TIEMPO
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© gettyimages.comOn November 29, a plane crashed in Colombia. The charter plane was flying from Bolivia to the Colombian city of Medellin. There were 81 people on board.
On board were the players of the Brazilian club Chapecoense and the journalists who accompanied them. They were flying to the Copa Sudamericana final match against Atlético Nacional.
Fuerza a los jugadores de Chapecoense, sus familias y sus seguidores. El Fútbol está de luto. pic.twitter.com/0tA0pmRYTf
A few minutes after takeoff, the ship crashed. Before the accident, the pilots informed dispatchers about a failure in the electrical system. They were given permission for an emergency landing. However, the plane did not reach its destination - it crashed in the mountains.
Rescuers immediately went to the scene of the plane crash, but heavy rains disrupted the search. According to preliminary data, the plane broke into two parts. However, it did not explode when it hit the ground, which allowed some passengers to survive.
Lack of fuel is cited as the cause of the plane crash in Colombia. The Spanish publication RTVE writes that shortly before the tragedy, the crew gave signals about low fuel levels. After the plane crash, rescuers managed to find six survivors, and three football players who did not fly to Colombia were also lucky.
Considering that the history of aviation knows many cases where people survived plane crashes, the editors of tochka.net decided to tell you about those cases when people, indeed, were born wearing shirts.
- December 23, 1971
A LANSA Lockheed L-188A with 92 passengers on board took off from the capital of Peru, Lima, heading for the city of Pucallpa. 500 km northeast of the country's capital, the airliner fell into a vast thunderstorm area, broke up in the air and fell into the jungle from a height of 2 km. Only 17-year-old Juliana Kepka managed to survive the terrible disaster. The girl was saved by the fact that the chair she was sitting on did not fall off a piece of the fuselage and, together with it, landed on a tree. Freed from her belts, Kepke wandered through the jungle for 10 days until she came to a settlement of Peruvian Indians.
- January 26, 1972
Croatian terrorists blew up a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 passenger plane over the Czech town of Serbska Kamenice. The plane was traveling from Copenhagen to Zagreb, with 28 people on board. The bomb, planted in the luggage compartment, detonated at an altitude of 10,160 meters. 27 passengers and crew were killed, however 22-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived after falling from a height of more than 10 kilometers. The plane crashed into snow-covered trees, and a few hours after the tragedy, a qualified physician turned up at the scene of the disaster and recognized Vesna’s signs of life. Quick help saved the girl's life. The miraculous rescue of Vesna Vulovich was even included in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest altitude jump without a parachute.
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- August 24, 1981
An Aeroflot An-24 passenger plane and a USSR Air Force Tu-16 bomber collided in the Far East. Among the people on these two planes, only 20-year-old Larisa Savitskaya, who was returning with her husband from a honeymoon, survived. The girl, who, by the way, was not wearing a seat belt, was saved by the fact that she was in the tail section of a passenger plane, and a piece of the fuselage fell with her onto an island of birch trees. Three days later, rescuers found her with serious injuries. Larisa Savitskaya is mentioned twice in the Guinness Book of Records: as a survivor of a plane crash and as someone who received the smallest compensation - 75 rubles.
- August 12, 1985
A Boeing 747SR-46 of the Japanese airline Japan Airlines crashed 100 km from Tokyo in the area of Mount Takamagahara. Of the 15 crew members and 505 passengers, only four women survived: 24-year-old Japan Airline employee Hiroko Yoshizaki, a 34-year-old passenger on the plane and her eight-year-old daughter Mikiko, and 12-year-old Keiko Kawakami, who was found sitting in a tree. This disaster has been called the largest single aircraft crash in the history of world aviation. 514 people died then.
- July 28, 2002
At Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, an Il-85 crashed immediately after takeoff, with 16 people on board: four pilots, 10 flight attendants and two engineers. 200 m after the plane took off from the ground, there was a loss of engine power, the plane fell onto the left wing and crashed, after which an explosion occurred. Then only two flight attendants managed to survive: Tatyana Moiseeva and Arina Vinogradova. Vinogradova, some time after being discharged from the hospital and completing a rehabilitation course, returned to work, and Moiseeva decided not to tempt fate and stay on earth.
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- July 8, 2003
A Boeing 737-2J8C, en route from Port Sudan to Khartoum, crashed in the desert on the shores of the Red Sea. After the crash, the plane caught fire. Of the 117 on board, only a two-year-old Sudanese boy survived without even being injured.
- January 9, 2009
A Gazpromavia Mi-171 helicopter with high-ranking officials on board crashed in the Altai Territory. As the investigation established, three crew members and eight passengers were engaged in shooting animals from the aircraft in violation of all rules. During the hunt, the crew descended in the mountains to an unacceptably low altitude, and the helicopter lost control. The victims of the disaster were five passengers and two crew members. Four, including the helicopter's co-pilot, managed to escape.
- January 16, 2009
Miraculously, 155 passengers of the Airbus A-320, which landed on the surface of Hudson Bay, were saved. A passenger airliner en route to North Carolina collided with a flock of birds minutes after takeoff, causing the ship's engines to shut down. To avoid disaster, the aircraft commander decided to glide to the surface of the water. The landing was rough, but none of the passengers were seriously injured. Within minutes, they were all evacuated by coast guard boats. 78 people were sent for examination with suspected hypothermia.
- June 28, 2009
A single-engine Cessna-172 Skyhawk crashed near Rimrock Lake in Washington state. At the time of the crash, 37-year-old Justin Reid and his two children, 13-year-old Parrin and five-year-old Julia, were on board. Father and son died immediately after colliding with the ground; only the girl managed to escape. Julia suffered a severe head injury and multiple fractures.
A plane carrying a Brazilian football team crashed in Colombia: there are survivors
There were more than 80 people on board [video]
Rescue teams arrived at the scene Photo: Website screenshot
A passenger plane crashed in Colombia with 81 people on board. Information about this was confirmed by local authorities.
The accident occurred in the province of Antioquia in the La Union region in the north-west of the country.
The accident occurred in the province of Antioquia in the La Union region in the north-west of the country Photo: Website screenshot
The plane, owned by Bolivian airline Lamia, was on a charter flight to Medellin, where the first match of the Copa Sudamericana final was scheduled for November 30. There were nine crew members and 72 passengers on board. Among the latter are 27 football players, members of the Brazilian team Chapecoense from the city of Chapeco, including the team captain, midfielder Kleber Santana. The athletes were supposed to take to the field against the Colombian team Atlético Nacional.
First video from the Colombia plane crash site
It is also known that there were journalists on board the plane, reports 360 Radio Colombia.
List of players from the Brazilian team Chapecoense who were on board
The circumstances of the incident are now being established. According to preliminary data, the plane crashed into the mountains. Rescue teams arrived at the scene. However, it is noted that access to the disaster site is only possible by land due to bad weather conditions.
The Chapecoense team was scheduled to play the first match of the Copa Sudamericana final on November 30. Photo: REUTERS
Brazilian football players at the airport before the crash
Later, information appeared about the victims of the plane crash. It became known that more than 20 people died as a result of the incident.
The team captain is midfielder Kleber Santana, who played, in particular, for Atlético Madrid.
The first images have appeared from the plane crash site in ColombiaPhoto: Twitter.com
Brazilian football players filmed video in the cabin of a crashed plane
The moment of the plane crash with Brazilian football players was caught on video
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A list of football players who were on board the plane that crashed in Colombia has appeared online.
There are more than 40 people on this list - these are employees of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense and the players themselves
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The pilot of the plane that crashed in Colombia sounded the alarm.
The ship's commander informed that the airliner's fuel level was too low to make a successful flight from Sao Paulo to Medellin
17:21 01/12/2016 Experts have completed the identification of all victims of the plane crash.
21:54 30/11/2016 Lack of fuel was named as the main reason for the plane crash. Experts investigating the incident believe that at the time of takeoff, the aircraft was not properly refueled.
08:00 30/11/2016 Rescuers found the bodies of 66 dead people at the scene of the plane crash.
15:32 29/11/2016 The bodies of 35 dead people are displayed at the site of the plane crash.
13:45 11/29/2016 One of the victims of the plane crash died. Doctors continue to fight for the lives of the remaining survivors.
11:18 11/29/2016 The first versions of the plane crash with Brazilian football players have been named. Among the main ones are technical failure of control and lack of fuel.
9:02 11/29/2016 At the scene of the plane crash, rescuers managed to find several survivors - their condition is critical, but doctors are making every effort to save people’s lives. The search and rescue operation was significantly complicated by unfavorable weather conditions and darkness.
8:36 11/29/2016 A plane with 81 people on board crashed in the suburbs of the Colombian city of Rionegro. Search and rescue operations are being carried out at the crash site. The first victims have been discovered.
Chronicle of events in the skies over Colombia
Taking into account the official information provided by the authorities of Brazil and Colombia, while flying from Bolivia to Colombia, the Avro RJ85 plane crashed near the Colombian city of Rionegro, where the plane with 72 passengers and 9 crew members was heading. The tragic plane crash actually occurred a few minutes before the passenger plane landed at its destination, however, the official circumstances of the aircraft crash have not yet been made public.
Causes and circumstances of the plane crash near Rionegro
Despite the fact that the authorities of Colombia and Brazil currently refuse to comment in any way on the plane crash, some details have become known that make it possible to find possible facts related to the tragedy.
Technical problem
Already in the first minutes after information about the plane crash with 72 passengers on board was officially confirmed, information appeared about a possible technical malfunction of the aircraft, which the crew commander reported to the Rionegro air traffic controller. According to preliminary information, the crew experienced serious problems with controlling the aircraft, in particular, this began to manifest itself when the altitude was reduced, which is why the Medellin Cordoba airport dispatcher gave the pilots priority to land. This version has not been officially commented on by the authorities, however, in the ongoing investigation it is taken into account as quite probable.
Fuel shortage
Another version of the plane crash that occurred on November 29, 2016 near the Colombian city of Rionegro is considered to be a lack of fuel in the aircraft’s fuel tanks. Taking into account the fact that it was documented that the plane was refueled, and also taking into account the pre-flight check of the systems, there should have been enough fuel in the tanks of the plane to successfully complete this flight, which quite likely leads to the fact that the fuel tanks leaked during the flight . Damage to the fuel tanks could have occurred either due to a mechanical shock, or due to thermal stresses, in particular, during temperature changes, the fuel tanks could have cracked, which is quite probable, since the pilot did not report the first circumstance to the dispatchers.
Consequences of the plane crash, dead and injured.
Despite the fact that the plane carrying 81 people fell from a fairly high altitude, scattering upon impact with the ground into a large number of separate parts, rescuers working at the scene of the crash were still able to find survivors - at the moment we are talking about 10 people , some of which are in critical condition. Experts have already found 25 victims of this tragic plane crash, however, taking into account the fact that many survivors have been found, rescuers believe that there may well be people under the remaining wreckage who can still be saved.