A plane carrying 81 people, including the Brazilian football team Sapekoense, which was to give the most important event in its history, crashed in the mountains of Colombia thus find the death of 75 of their occupants, and six were rescued.
Dozens of corpses were lying, covered with sheets around the wreckage of the aircraft BA 146 Bolivian Lamia company crashed near La Union, a small town outside of Medellin.
The President of Brazil Michel Temer declared three-day mourning in the country.
The plane, carrying 72 passengers and nine-crew had departed from São Paulo, Brazil. He made a stop in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, and then continued its journey towards the Medellin Colombia. Crashed around 22.15 (local time) Monday in the mountainous region of El Gordo, at an altitude of 3,300 meters, while abstained approximately 40 kilometers from Medellin.
So far the causes of the tragedy remain unclear. Local media reported that the captain of the BA 146 spoke of a problem in the electrical circuit before disappearing from radar.
A photojournalist agency Reuters found in the region said the plane broke in two and the rear dissolved. Dozens of rescuers rushed into the night and the rain and managed to find alive six occupants.
Survivors are footballers Elio Hermite Zampier Neto, Luciano Alan Russell and Jackson Raniar Folman, the stewardess Jimenez Suarez, the engineer of the aircraft Erwin Toumiri and journalist Rafael Hensel. All of them hospitalized in the region. The National Crisis and Disaster Management Unit (UNGRD) of Colombia reported that younger account for the victims will not be announced only when the research in the area are completed.
According to the Director of Civil Aviation of Colombia service, Alfredo Bocanegra among the passengers were 22 players, 28 chaperones and members of the team of technical staff and 22 journalists.
"A tragedy plunged us into mourning. We are deeply sorry for the crash of the aircraft carrying the Sapekoense" wrote on Twitter Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia. Immediately after, in a televised address, he stated that Temer phoned to express his condolences and to offer the collaboration of Colombia "in these difficult times."
Santos noted that the investigation into the circumstances and causes of the tragedy "proceeds".
The accident occurred five minutes before the scheduled landing of the aircraft on the Jose Maria Cordoba de Rionegkro airport. According to authorities, the weather conditions were bad, mainly because of severe rainfall. Because the area is inaccessible (the first rescuers took half an hour to reach the point), the investigations were stopped for a while during the night and continued just dawned.
The players of Sapekoense going tomorrow to compete in Medellin against Atletico Nacional for the first final of the Copa Sudamericana. After the incredible tragedy, Atlético Nacional gave the event trophy, honorary, in Sapekoense group. Fans of Atletico also asked the people be gathered in the Medellin tomorrow stage, the time of the game was being played, to pay tribute to tragic to members Sapekoense.
Player saved thanks to injury before the final
Alejandro Martinoutsio unjustly cursed his fate: Argentine footballer injured before the final of the Copa Sudamericana and excluded from Sapekoense mission, which was to give the most important event in its history. The Martinoutsio never boarded the plane that crashed in Medellin Colombia, xeklirizontas his team.
The injury saved him, but he is shocked by the tragedy, as said his father, Reuben.
The Reuben Martinoutsio praised his teammates son, most of whom perished in the crash. "They were wonderful people," said the player's father met all ten days ago, when he visited his son, his bride and their three children. "I hope that all these young people find themselves in God's glory," he said.
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