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Colombia Plane Crash: Six Survived Including Two Goalkeepers And One Defender Of Brazilian Chapecoense Team!!

A plane carrying Brazilian first division football team Chapecoense crashed near Medellin on Monday. The officials reported that there have been 71 deaths and only 6 people survived the crash.

The British Aerospace 146 was on its way to the finals of a regional tournament which was due to play on Wednesday. The plane lost radar contact just before 10pm because of an electrical failure, on Monday.

image source: metro.co.uk

The rescuers worked through the night and pulled three passengers alive from the wreckage but after some hours the authorities had to freeze the operation until dusk due to heavy rainfall as it was becoming impossible to reach the mountainside crash site. The operation resumed but by then it was a body recovery operation rather than the rescue operation.

The plane was carrying only 68 passengers out of 72 as other four passengers did not board and it also had nine crew members onboard. Only six people including three players of the team, one journalist and two crew members survived the plane crash. They are being treated at the local hospitals.

The footage of football team Chapecoense players, hours before crash:

The Colombian Air Force has sent a military helicopter to revive the dead bodies of the people from the site. Two black boxes are found and investigators hope that these boxes will help them to find the cause of the crash.

Though, the head of Colombia’s aviation authority stated that reports suggest that the crash was caused by electrical failure but one of the survivors reported that the aircraft ran out of fuel just five minutes before its scheduled landing.

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30 November 2016
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