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Plane Carrying Brazilian Football Team Crashed

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A plane carrying 81 people, including a top Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia.

Police say five people survived the crash, but the rest of those on board died.

Flight CP-2933, which was travelling from Cochabamba, Bolivia to Medellin, Colombia with a stop in Santa Cruz, declared an emergency at 10pm on Monday (3am Tuesday GMT).

The chartered aircraft, flying from Brazil via Bolivia, was carrying members of the Chapecoense team. The team was due to play in the final of the Copa Sudamericana, against Medellin team Atletico Nacional.


Some reports claimed that the plane failed to make it to the runway because of fuel shortage. 


According to Colombia’s Caracol Radio, there were also eight Chapacoense executives, three guests of the club and 21 journalists on the flight.

Medellin police chief José Acevedo told local radio station Caracol, six people had been pulled alive from the wreckage, but that one had died in hospital.

There have been reports that a female member of the crew also survived.

Last photos of Chapecoense football players before plane crash in Colombia-






 One of the survivors was confirmed as Chapecoense defender Alan Ruschel.
Reports suggest that at least two other footballers - goalkeepers Jackson Follman and Marcos Danilo - may have survived.

Originally six survivors were reported, but police later said one of those rescued had died.
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