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Briefly
A plane carrying 77 people, including Brazilian football players, crashed in Colombia. football club"Chapecoense". Four passengers canceled the flight at the last minute.
Six people survived.
Before the crash, the pilots reported electrical problems and “declared an emergency.”
Details
Yesterday at 21:56 local time in Colombia, in the La Ceja area (about 30 kilometers southeast of the city of Medellin), an RJ-85 plane with players and coaching staff of the Chapecoense team disappeared from radar. There were 72 passengers and 8 crew members on board.
In addition to the players and coaches, there were club executives, three guests and 21 journalists on the plane.
The plane was heading to Medellin, where the team was supposed to play in the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana against the local Atlético Nacional.
Survivors
Rescuers found no traces of fire at the crash site. The absence of an explosion and ignition contributed to the fact that not everyone died in the disaster.
There was initially no clear information about the casualties. According to AFP, 25 people were immediately found. 5 survivors were reported.
According to journalist Pablo Medina Uribe, three players were taken to the hospital. These are defender Alan Ruschel (he will likely be paralyzed from the waist down) and goalkeepers Marcos Danilo and Jackson Folman (leg amputee).
Alan Ruschel
https://twitter.com/EcuSport/status/803495075342909440?ref_src=twsrc^tfwMarcos Danilo
https://twitter.com/ImpactoFutbol/status/803500991240880128?ref_src=twsrc^tfw90 rescuers worked at the scene of the disaster. Due to heavy rain, work was suspended until dawn.
https://twitter.com/MiOriente/status/803509380922609664?ref_src=twsrc^tfwLater, officially confirmed information appeared.
Among the dead is a son former coach CSKA physical training Paulo Paixao Anderson.
Goalkeeper Danilo survived the crash, but died from his injuries in hospital. Before his death, he managed to meet his wife.
The names of all survivors have become known: players Elihu Neto, Jackson Folman, Alan Ruschel, journalist Rafael Henzel, flight attendant Ximena Suarez (the least injured of all, her condition is stable) and aircraft technician Erwin Tumeri.
https://twitter.com/martinmazur/status/803536051373568002?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwWhat happened
At 22:00 (4 minutes after the plane disappeared from radar), the plane's crew "declared an emergency" and reported "electrical problems." This happened as the plane was descending and was preparing to land in Medellin. Then contact with the plane was lost. Rescuers flew to the site of the alleged crash, but heavy fog complicated the search for the crash site.
According to Flightradar, the plane occupied a holding pattern over a mountainous area before landing and circled twice, likely due to technical problems, at an altitude of 21,000 feet (6.4 kilometers). The RJ-85 then left the holding area and began to descend. The latest data was recorded by the Flightradar service when the plane was at an altitude of 15,550 feet (4.7 km).
On September 7, 2011, a Yak-42 aircraft of Yak Service airlines crashed during takeoff from Tunoshna airport in the Yaroslavl region. On board the plane was hockey team"Lokomotiv" (Yaroslavl), which flew to the match in Minsk. According to preliminary data, there were people on board.
July 15, 2009 In the north-west of Iran, a Tu-154M plane of the Iranian airline Caspian Airlines crashed while flying from Tehran to Yerevan. On board the plane was the Iranian youth judo team. The athletes flew to Armenia for training and then had to fly to Hungary to participate in competitions. All 168 people on this flight died.
August 24, 2008 A Boeing 737 plane, en route from Bishkek to Tehran, crashed in Kyrgyzstan. There were 90 people on board the plane, including 17 members of the Iranian youth volleyball team. Ten of them died. 25 passengers and crew members managed to escape.
April 27, 1993 Not far from Gabon (Africa), a DHC-5 Buffalo plane carrying members of the Zambian football team crashed into the sea as a result of engine failure. A total of 30 people died, including 18 football players.
June 7, 1989 At the airport of the capital of Suriname, Paramaribo (South America), a DC-8-60 series plane crashed, resulting in the death of 23 Dutch football players of Surinamese origin who were on board the crashed plane. A total of 176 people (out of 187 passengers and crew) were killed.
December 8, 1987 near the city of Lima (Peru), the entire Allianz football team was killed as a result of explosions on board an F‑27 aircraft. The bodies of the victims could not be found because the plane crashed into the sea. It is known that there were 43 people on the plane.
March 14, 1980 In the plane crash of a Polish IL-62 plane near Warsaw (Poland), 22 members of the US national boxing team were killed.
August 11, 1979 over the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk (Ukraine), a Tu-134 plane flying from Tashkent to Minsk collided with a plane flying from Chelyabinsk to Chisinau. 178 people died (165 passengers and 13 crew members), from Uzbekistan, which was competing in the major league. The team flew to Minsk to play with local Dynamo.
November 29, 1975 Formula 1 racing team Embassy Racing with Graham Hill, pilot Graham Hill, died in a plane crash. The six-seater Piper Aztec plane, on which the team was returning from racing in France to London, crashed and burned during landing.
October 13, 1972 In the Andes, on the way to the capital of Chile, Santiago, part of the rugby team from Montevideo (Uruguay) died in a plane crash.
In total, there were 45 people on board the FH-227 aircraft, 16 of whom survived.
December 31, 1970 In a plane crash, the entire amateur football team from Algeria, Air Liquid, was killed on its way to a friendly match in Spain.
November 14, 1970 In Virginia (USA), 37 players from the Marshall University team (Huntington, West Virginia) were killed in a plane crash. American football. In addition to the athletes, there were members on board the plane coaching staff, fans, as well as the head of the sports department (75 people in total). No one survived.
April 1, 1970 An An-24 passenger plane crashed near Krasnoyarsk. All passengers (including the youth volleyball team) and crew members were killed.
September 26, 1969 In the Andes, on the way to La Paz (Bolivia), a plane carrying 25 players from the Bolivian football team Strongest crashed. 19 football players and club leaders were killed.
April 3, 1961 A Douglas C‑47A plane crashed in the Cordilleras (Chile). As a result of the disaster, everyone on board died - the Chilean football team "Green Cross" and crew members (24 people).
February 15, 1961 While landing in Belgium, a Sabena Boeing 707 crashed while flying on the New York-Brussels route. All 72 people on board, as well as one person on the ground, were killed. The disaster killed the US figure skating team (34 athletes and coaches), which was heading to the World Championships in Prague (Czechoslovakia). World Championship figure skating 1961 was canceled as a sign of grief for the victims.
February 6, 1958 At Munich Airport (Germany), a plane carrying football players from the English team Manchester United crashed while trying to take off. A total of 23 people on board died, including 8 athletes, a coach, a team secretary, one of the directors of Manchester United and eight sports correspondents.
January 5, 1950 During the third approach in difficult weather conditions, a Li-2 plane crashed in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). 8 hockey players of the USSR Air Force team died, as well as a coach, doctor and massage therapist.
May 4, 1949 As a result of a plane crash near Turin (Italy), the entire team of the Torino football club and everyone else on board the plane (including journalists, officials, and coach) were killed. A total of 31 people died.
November 18, 1948 In a plane crash over the English Channel, 6 leading hockey players of the Czechoslovak national team (goalkeeper, defenders and forwards) were killed.
The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources
Names of the victims and survivors of Chapecoense on the Colombia plane VIDEO 
The crashed plane was flying from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Medellin with 77 people on board, instead of the expected 81: 4 of them refused to fly on this flight. Among others, members of the Brazilian football team Chapecoense were on board. According to official data, six managed to survive.
The Brazilian football team Chapecoense was flying from Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) to the Colombian city of Medellin to play in the Copa Libertadores final against Atlético Nacional. The plane crashed in the Cerro Gordo area in the Colombian department of Antioquia. The aircraft belonged to Bron and was registered as CP2933 RJ 80, which carried 68 passengers and nine crew members. The airliner lost contact with the control tower of Maria Cordova International Airport in Medellin (Rionegro) while flying over the cities of La Cieja and Abejorral,
Six managed to survive, here are their names:
Alan Ruschel, central defender
Danilo Marcos, goalkeeper
Jackson Folman, goalkeeper
Jimena Suarez, flight attendant
Rafael Enzel, Brazilian journalist
The sixth survivor is Helio Hermito Zampier, known by the nickname Neto, the defender.
The names of nine players from the Brazilian club Chapecoense who died in a plane crash in Colombia.
Alejandro Martinuccio, midfielder
Rafael Ramos de Lima, center of defense
Odair Sauza, also known as Nemen, midfielder
Demerson Bruno Costa, center back
Marcelo Boeck, goalkeeper
Andrey Alba, forward
Hayoran Keio Delmoreo, forward
Moises Ribeiro Santos, defense
Jose Nivado Martins, goalkeeper.
Causes of the tragedy
The exact cause and outcome of the accident have not yet been determined, but it is known that the aircraft declared an emergency on board, reporting an “electrical fault.” One version suggests the reason is fuel consumption.
Brazilian footballer Alan Luciano Ruschel, a member of the crashed Chapecoense club team after a plane crash in the Antioquia region (Colombia) 
A victim of the Chapecoense plane crash tells how he managed to survive: “I survived because I followed the safety rules,” were the words of Erwin Tumiri, a survivor of the air tragedy.
Tumiri, a technician on the plane carrying the Brazilian soccer team that crashed Tuesday in Medellin, Colombia, just before the final game against Atlético Nacional, speaks of his rescue:
“In that situation, many people rose from their seats and started screaming. I placed the bags between my legs to form into the fetal position recommended in extreme situations,” said the Bolivian technician.
Tumiri's wife, flight attendant Jimena Suarez, also survived along with 5 other people. The remaining 77 passengers died as a result of the accident. Data provided by Colombian police.
Chapecoense players who did not travel on this tragic flight VIDEO
In the 40s of the last century, it was not Juventus that was the main club in Turin, but the team of the same name with the city, which won five national titles from 1942 to 1949. And a dozen team members were national team players.
On May 4, 1949, the Italian champions were returning from a friendly match against Benfica in Portugal on a three-engine Fiat plane. The plane was forced to land in Barcelona to refuel. Here at the airport the players met their colleagues from Milan, who were flying to Madrid for a match with. They were the last to see the Turin people alive.
The plane had almost reached its arrival point, but a few kilometers before Turin it entered a dense fog. The pilot became disorientated, but decided to land the plane based on his own instincts. Having descended, the plane caught the fence of the Basilica of Superga with its left wing, instantly lost control and crashed into the ground at high speed.
At that time, there were 18 team members on board the plane, led by team captain Valentino Mazzola, several journalists, officials and English coach Leslie Livesey. The only player missing was Lauro Tom, who remained at home due to injury.
None of those on the plane survived.
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The Busby Babes are a legendary Manchester United squad led by a great coach. A year before the disaster, the team became the champion of England and was the first to take part in the European Champions Cup.
On that fateful day, February 6, 1958, the team was returning from a Champions Cup quarter-final match against Red Star Belgrade on a British Airways charter flight from Belgrade to Manchester. Refueling was required, and the pilot decided to carry it out at Munich airport.
While trying to take off, the plane unexpectedly developed engine problems, however, not wanting to fall behind schedule, the pilots decided to try again. The snow stuck on the runway did not allow the plane to gain the required altitude, and, despite a desperate attempt to lift the ship off the ground, the pilots were unable to gain the required altitude - at a speed of 200 km/h, the plane broke through the airport fence and crashed into a neighboring house.
None of the residents of the house were injured, but of the 44 people on board, 23 were killed and another 19 were injured. For three members of the coaching staff and seven football players, this flight was the last.
Among the survivors was - later a legend English football, world champion and winner of the 1966 Ballon d'Or.
Denmark second team
Eight football players from the second Danish national team died in a plane crash upon landing at the airport in the small Danish city of Oresund, near Copenhagen. They were flying to prepare national team to the Olympic football tournament in Rome.
Despite what happened, the Danish Football Union decided not to refuse to participate in the tournament.
"Green Cross"
The entire team of the first division of the Chilean championship crashed in the Cordillera when returning from Osorio. 24 people died.
"Strongest"
The most popular club crashed in the Andes on September 26, 1969, while returning to La Paz. 19 players and club managers were killed.
Air Liquid
The entire team, flying to a friendly match in Spain, died in a plane crash.
"Pakhtakor"
Perhaps one of the most famous and terrible disasters in the history of Soviet aviation. On that fateful day, two Tu-134 passenger planes collided over Dneprodzerzhinsk due to the fault of air traffic controllers. There is also a version about a training missile hit.
Pakhtakor football players were flying on a regular flight from Tashkent to Minsk for a match with local Dynamo. The second aircraft was flying Voronezh - Chisinau.
The airliners collided in the air. The plane carrying the crew lost its tail, part of its right wing and one of its engines. The pilot tried to make an emergency landing, but at an altitude of 4000 m he entered a steep dive and crashed to the ground.
"Alianza Lima"
A plane carrying 43 players, team managers and fans while returning home after a Chilean championship match crashed into the sea 6 miles north of the country's capital, Lima.
Zambia national team
In April 1993, the Zambian national team flew to a qualifying match for the World Cup against the Senegal team. The plane crashed into the sea off the coast of Gabon.
Chapecoense
On November 29, a plane carrying the Brazilian football team Chapecoense crashed in Colombia on their way to the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana against the local Atlético Nacional. The cause of the accident was a collision with a rock. There were 27 club players on board, and in total there were 81 people on the plane.
As of 16:00 Moscow time, the number of victims was 76 people.
The head of Brazil expressed his condolences to the President Russian Federation, reports the official website of the Kremlin.
Other news and materials can be viewed on the chronicles, as well as in the sports department groups on social networks
On September 7, 2011, a Yak-42 aircraft of Yak Service airlines crashed during takeoff from Tunoshna airport in the Yaroslavl region. On board the plane was the hockey team "Lokomotiv" (Yaroslavl), which was flying to a match in Minsk. According to preliminary data, there were people on board.
July 15, 2009 In the north-west of Iran, a Tu-154M plane of the Iranian airline Caspian Airlines crashed while flying from Tehran to Yerevan. On board the plane was the Iranian youth judo team. The athletes flew to Armenia for training and then had to fly to Hungary to participate in competitions. All 168 people on this flight died.
August 24, 2008 A Boeing 737 plane, en route from Bishkek to Tehran, crashed in Kyrgyzstan. There were 90 people on board the plane, including 17 members of the Iranian youth volleyball team. Ten of them died. 25 passengers and crew members managed to escape.
April 27, 1993 Not far from Gabon (Africa), a DHC-5 Buffalo plane carrying members of the Zambian football team crashed into the sea as a result of engine failure. A total of 30 people died, including 18 football players.
June 7, 1989 At the airport of the capital of Suriname, Paramaribo (South America), a DC-8-60 series plane crashed, resulting in the death of 23 Dutch football players of Surinamese origin who were on board the crashed plane. A total of 176 people (out of 187 passengers and crew) were killed.
December 8, 1987 near the city of Lima (Peru), the entire Allianz football team was killed as a result of explosions on board an F‑27 aircraft. The bodies of the victims could not be found because the plane crashed into the sea. It is known that there were 43 people on the plane.
March 14, 1980 In the plane crash of a Polish IL-62 plane near Warsaw (Poland), 22 members of the US national boxing team were killed.
August 11, 1979 over the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk (Ukraine), a Tu-134 plane flying from Tashkent to Minsk collided with a plane flying from Chelyabinsk to Chisinau. 178 people (165 passengers and 13 crew members) from Uzbekistan, which was playing in the major league at that time, were killed. The team flew to Minsk to play with local Dynamo.
November 29, 1975 Formula 1 racing team Embassy Racing with Graham Hill, pilot Graham Hill, died in a plane crash. The six-seater Piper Aztec plane, on which the team was returning from racing in France to London, crashed and burned during landing.
October 13, 1972 In the Andes, on the way to the capital of Chile, Santiago, part of the rugby team from Montevideo (Uruguay) died in a plane crash.
In total, there were 45 people on board the FH-227 aircraft, 16 of whom survived.
December 31, 1970 In a plane crash, the entire amateur football team from Algeria, Air Liquid, was killed on its way to a friendly match in Spain.
November 14, 1970 In Virginia (USA), 37 players of the Marshall University (Huntington, West Virginia) American football team died in a plane crash. In addition to the athletes, there were members of the coaching staff, fans, and the head of the sports department on board the plane (75 people in total). No one survived.
April 1, 1970 An An-24 passenger plane crashed near Krasnoyarsk. All passengers (including the youth volleyball team) and crew members were killed.
September 26, 1969 In the Andes, on the way to La Paz (Bolivia), a plane carrying 25 players from the Bolivian football team Strongest crashed. 19 football players and club leaders were killed.
April 3, 1961 A Douglas C‑47A plane crashed in the Cordilleras (Chile). As a result of the disaster, everyone on board died - the Chilean football team "Green Cross" and crew members (24 people).
February 15, 1961 While landing in Belgium, a Sabena Boeing 707 crashed while flying on the New York-Brussels route. All 72 people on board, as well as one person on the ground, were killed. The disaster killed the US figure skating team (34 athletes and coaches), which was heading to the World Championships in Prague (Czechoslovakia). The 1961 World Figure Skating Championships were canceled as a sign of mourning for the victims.
February 6, 1958 At Munich Airport (Germany), a plane carrying football players from the English team Manchester United crashed while trying to take off. A total of 23 people on board died, including 8 athletes, a coach, a team secretary, one of the directors of Manchester United and eight sports correspondents.
January 5, 1950 During the third approach in difficult weather conditions, a Li-2 plane crashed in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). 8 hockey players of the USSR Air Force team died, as well as a coach, doctor and massage therapist.
May 4, 1949 As a result of a plane crash near Turin (Italy), the entire team of the Torino football club and everyone else on board the plane (including journalists, officials, and coach) were killed. A total of 31 people died.
November 18, 1948 In a plane crash over the English Channel, 6 leading hockey players of the Czechoslovak national team (goalkeeper, defenders and forwards) were killed.
The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources
