A plane carrying 81 people, including a top Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia.
Reports say seven people were pulled alive from the plane but two have since died including the team's goalkeeper.

The chartered plane, carrying top Brazilian football team Chapecoense, crashed outside the city of Medellin killing 76 and leaving just six survivors.


Team members posed together for a picture in Bolivia ahead of take-off as they were travelling to Colombia for the biggest game in the club's history, the Copa Sudamerica final. But their journey came to a devastating end when the jet crashed down in remote mountains at about 10.15pm.

The Avro RJ85 plane, which was carrying nine crew, suffered power failures while flying through the Antioquia Department on its way from Bolivia. Officials said it smashed into a hill and broke in two as reports emerged that the pilot had circled around before crash landing in a desperate bid to burn off fuel.

Just 20 days ago, the same plane had transported the Argentinian football team, including megastars Lionel Messi and Angel Di Maria, to Belo Horizonte in Brazil, where they played Brazil in the group stage of the 2018 World Cup.


Heartbreaking images have since emerged online showing devastated players who were not travelling with the Chapecoense squad sitting in the club's empty changing room.

Separate images show two footballers, Defender Alan Ruschel and goalkeeper Danilo Padilha, posing for selfies during the journey from Brazil with Ruschel, 27, telling fans: 'We're coming Colombia.'




source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3980974/Plane-carrying-72-passengers-including-Brazilian-football-team-crashes-Colombia-reports-say.html

Lalasticlala

United for the last time, this is the Brazilian football team posing together in front of a passenger jet before their doomed flight crashed in Colombia, killing 76 on board.

RIP....

Onboard: Images show two footballers, Defender Alan Ruschel (right in the two pictures) and goalkeeper Danilo Padilha (next to Ruschel), posing for selfies during the journey from Brazil before the crash with Ruschel, 27, telling fans:

'We're coming Colombia'. Both Ruschel and Danilo were pulled alive from the wreckage butDanilo later died in hospital.

Flight path: Images posted online show the moment the plane disappeared from the radar over a remote part of Colombia.

The pilot is understood to have circled to burn fuel before attempting to land.

Heartbreaking images have also emerged online showing devastated players who were not travelling with the team sitting in the empty club changing room.

#forçaChapecoense

Crash site: Pictures show how the plane smashed into the side of a mountain after coming down close to the town of La Union.


A police searcher looks through the wreckage of the plane as rescuers started to remove bodies from the site this morning.

A rescuer walks past the body of a victim from the plane crash in the mountains.

Mhen! RIP... So the same plane was used for the Argentina team last week...

Sad!...

Seun lalasticlala

Breaking News: Shocked fans comforted each other outside the home of Chapecoense at the Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco.

Supporters and fans gathered outside the club in Brazil as they awaited news on the crash in Colombia earlier today.

Images emerged online showing players in the cockpit posing for pictures with pilot Miquel Quiroga, who was believed to have been flying the doomed plane.

The Chapecoense football team are pictured here on a plane.

The footballers had to change their flight and board the plane that crashed after Brazilian aviation authorities prevented them from taking a charter flight, it has been claimed.

A video published on the Chapecoense Facebook page showed team members readying for the flight and saying goodbyes earlier on Monday yesterday in Sao Paulo's Guarulhos international airport.

Pictures show how trees were flattened as the plane came in to land.

Reports suggest the captain circled before attempting to land.

Brazilian aviation authorities said they had denied LaMia's request for a charter flight directly from Sao Paulo, saying only a Brazilian or Colombian company was allowed to operate the requested route.


Rescue experts started to remove parts of the plane this morning as they worked to clear the scene of the disaster.

Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016, photo, players of Brazil's Chapecoense celebrate at the end of a Copa Sudamericana semifinal soccer match against Argentina's San Lorenzo in Chapeco, Brazil.

Rescue workers arrange the bodies of victims of the air crash, La Union, a mountainous area outside Medellin, Colombia, Tuesday , Nov. 29, 2016.


The plane was carrying the Brazilian first division soccer club Chapecoense team that was on it's way for a Copa Sudamericana final match against Colombia's Atletico Nacional.

Rip of only they knew

Rescue workers searching the wreckage in the morning, Tuesday, 29, 2016.

Carrying one the survivors in the night.

Pictures have emerged showing members of the crew of the doomed Boliviain aricraft.

and nairaland didnt say anytin since morning

Remote: Rescuers had to trek 30 minutes in order to reach the crash site which was in a mountainous region of Colombia.

The plane was flying from Viru Viru airport in Santa Cruz, Bolivia and should have landed at Jose Maria Cordova in Colombia.

sad news, i hate plane crash

RIP to the dead.

this is really sad

Painful

The plane that crashed with the Chapecoense
players on board was the one that carried
Argentina after their 3-0 loss to Brazil 18 days ago.









R.I.P to the dead

This is so sad. R.I.P to the dead

Sometimes an injury or a red/yellow card (a seemingly bad occurrence) might be God's way of preserving us from a future mishap.

All the same, may those who died rest in perfect peace. God knows best.....