A plane crashed in Colombia, carrying 81 people, most of them football players and employees of the Brazilian club Chapecoense, who were heading to final match South American Cup. The airliner, which took off from Brazil, made an intermediate landing in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, after which it headed for Medellin and crashed near the airport of this city. According to various sources, survived from six to ten people.

What happened?

The plane disappeared from the radar while approaching the airport of the Colombian city of Medellin on Monday, November 28, at 22:15 local time (06:15 Tuesday Moscow time). Subsequently, it became known that he crashed on the territory of the Colombian province of Antioquia, not far from the Rionegro River. According to preliminary data, the aircraft commander informed the controllers of Medellin Cordoba airport about the lack of fuel. The aircraft was given priority landing, but it was never able to land.

How many people were on board?

There were 72 passengers and nine crew members on board. Including football players of the Brazilian club "Chapecoense", members of the board of the team, representatives coaching staff, technical staff of the team, as well as journalists. Among the club's players are team captain Kleber Santana, who played four years for Atlético Madrid and Mallorca, forward Alejandro Martinuccio (he defended the colors of Villarreal in Spain), goalkeeper Marcelo Book (he played for Maritima in Portugal for six years and "Sporting").

Survivors reported...

Initial information: everyone on the plane died. However, it soon became known that survivors were found in the area of the crash, and 10 people were taken to local hospitals. Then they clarified that the rescuers found six survivors, one of them died on the way to the hospital. Rescue work continues at the crash site. A list of all passengers has been posted on social media.

What is the main version of what happened?

The plane could have crashed due to lack of fuel.

What is known about the football team?

Chapecoense is based in the city of Chapeco, located in the state of Santa Catarina in the south of the country. The club is quite young by football standards, founded in 1973. The debut in Brazil's top division - Serie A - took place in 1978, but a year later the team lost its residence in the country's football elite and was able to return there only 35 years later - in 2014.

For two seasons in a row (2014, 2015), the team was on the verge of relegation, but remained in Serie A, finishing 15th and 14th respectively, and the current championship turned out to be the most successful for the team - one round before the end of Chapecoense with 52 points located on the ninth line and has long protected itself from being demoted in the class. On the eve of the club on the road lost to Palmeiras, which in a meeting with Chapecoense ahead of schedule won the title of champion of Brazil.

Where were the players going?

The players flew to the Colombian city of Medellin, where the first (of two) final match of the Copa Sudamericana against the Colombian team Atlético Nacional was to take place. The game was scheduled for the evening of November 30 (night of December 1 Moscow time).

Air crashes involving athletes

History knows several cases of the death of sports teams in air crashes. In 2011, during takeoff, a Yak-42D aircraft crashed near the Yaroslavl Tunoshna airport. hockey club"Locomotive". 26 players of the main team, five coaches and six people from the team's technical staff were killed.

In 1979, two Tu-134 aircraft collided over Dneprodzerzhinsk, one of which contained 14 football players, the second coach, administrator and doctor of the Tashkent Pakhtakor football club. All of them died, in total, the tragedy claimed the lives of 178 people.

21 years earlier, an Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador with the players and coaches of the famous football club Manchester United on board crashed while taking off in Munich. Eight Red Devils players, the club's secretary and two coaches were killed. Nine players survived, including Bobby Charlton, who later became a Manchester United legend. Team head coach Matt Busby also managed to escape.

In 1950, while landing at the Sverdlovsk airport "Koltsovo", the plane "Li-2" crashed. There were 13 members on board. hockey team Air Force and 6 crew members. All died. By a lucky chance, Vsevolod Bobrov, the main star domestic football and hockey in the 1950s, missed that plane.

Torino was the strongest club in Italy and one of the best in Europe. The team was returning from Lisbon, where they played with Benfica. The accident occurred near Turin, all on board, including the crew, were killed, including 18 football players.

Torino has not yet recovered from the consequences of this tragedy. For more than 60 years, the club has only once won the championship and won the Coppa Italia twice, while spending 11 seasons in Serie B.

"Manchester United"

Date: February 6, 1958.
Number of dead: 23 people.

The legendary team of Matt Busby was returning from Belgrade from the return leg of the Champions Cup quarter-final against Red Star Star. The plane landed for refueling in Munich, and then tried to take off, but two attempts were unsuccessful.

However, a third attempt was made, during which the plane went off the runway at speed and crashed into a house. As a result of the impact and the resulting fire, 23 people died, including 8 "Busby babies".

"Pakhtakor"

Date: August 11, 1979.
Number of dead: 178 people.

A terrible catastrophe occurred over Dneprodzerzhinsk (now Kamenskoe) of the Dnepropetrovsk region of Ukraine. A large number of victims is explained by the fact that two Tu-134 aircraft collided in the sky.

Among the dead were 14 Pakhtakor players, a doctor, an administrator and the team's second coach, who flew to Minsk for a calendar match of the championship. After the tragedy, the Uzbek club received reinforcements from other teams, and the USSR Football Federation "insured" Pakhtakor against relegation from the top league for three years.

Alliance Lima

Date: December 7, 1987.
Number of dead: 43 people.

The team of one of the most famous football clubs died under mysterious circumstances - for unknown reasons, the plane fell apart during a flight at sea. The only survivor - the pilot of the aircraft did not help to clarify the causes of the tragedy.

As a result, Alliance Lima ended the championship with a youth team, since the entire base flew on that ill-fated flight.

Dutch from Suriname

Date: June 7, 1989.
Number of dead: 176 people.

These guys were playing different clubs and went to their historical homeland in order to take part in a local tournament with a sort of combined hodgepodge - a kind of tribute to the land of their ancestors. There were 23 players on the team in total.

Due to pilot error during landing, the plane hit a tree with its wing. Only 11 people survived, but there were no footballers among them. And they were supposed to fly to this tournament, but the clubs did not let them go at the last moment.

Zambian national team

Date: April 27, 1993.
Number of dead: 26 people.

The Zambian team flew to qualifying match the 1994 World Cup, and the flight was organized by the country's air force. In flight, the engine caught fire and the plane crashed into the water.

There were no survivors in this disaster, among the dead were 18 national team players, two coaches, the president of the football federation and 5 crew members.

"Chapecoense"

Date: November 28, 2016.
Number of dead: 86 people.

The Brazilian team flew to Colombia for the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana against Atlético Nacional. On approach to Medellin airport, the plane crashed into a mountain. Only six people survived the crash, of which one, goalkeeper Danilo, later died in the hospital.

At the suggestion of Atlético Nacional, COMNEBOL declared Chapecoense the winner of the Copa Sudamericana.

The last two tragedies are separated by almost a quarter of a century. May the next break be forever.

Names of those who died and survived in the Chapecoense on the plane of Colombia VIDEO

The crashed plane was flying Santa Cruz de la Sierra - Medellin with 77 people on board, instead of the expected 81: 4 of them refused to fly this flight. Among other things, there were members of the Brazilian football team"Chapecoense". According to official figures, six survived.

The Brazilian football team Chapecoense flew 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 near Cerro Gordo in the Colombian department of Antioquia.

The aircraft belonged to Bron and was registered as CP2933 RJ 80 with 68 passengers and nine crew members. The liner 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 Markos, goalkeeper
Jackson Folman, goaltender
Jimena Suarez, flight attendant
Rafael Enzel, Brazilian journalist
The sixth survivor is Helio Hermito Zampier, aka Neto, the protector.

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 of defense
Marcelo Boek, goalkeeper
Andrei Alba, forward
Heyoran Keio Delmoro, Forward
Moises Ribeiro Santos, defense
Jose Nivado Martins, goalkeeper.

Causes of the tragedy

The exact cause of the accident has not yet been determined, but it is known that the aircraft declared a state of emergency on board, reporting an "electrical failure". One of the versions suggests the reason for the fuel consumption.

Brazilian football player Alan Luciano Ruchel, member of the crashed Chapecoense club team after a plane crash in the Antioquia region (Colombia)
Air crash victim Chapecoense 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, an aircraft technician with the Brazilian football team that crashed Tuesday in Medellin, Colombia, just before the game in the final against Atlético Nacional, has this to say about his rescue:

“In that situation, many people got up from their seats and started shouting. I put the bags between my legs to form into the position of the embryo 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 in the accident. Data provided by Colombian police.

Chapecoense players who did not fly on this tragic flight VIDEO

Athletes fly often - to competitions, training camps. And representatives of team sports also fly all together. Therefore, numerous cases from history modern sports when an entire sport Team, are quite understandable statistically. But this does not diminish the pain of relatives, friends and fans. Today we remember the most tragic plane crashes in the history of sports.

The death of the Yaroslavl "Locomotive"

Yaroslavl "Lokomotiv" did not achieve much success for a decade, since the former head coach Vladimir Vuytek left the team in 2003, having received a better offer from ex-rivals Kazan Ak Bars. This, however, did not prevent the team from starting each season with full dedication. At the start of the 2011-12 season, the team intended to follow the same course as a member of the Continental hockey league. But on September 7, 2011, during a flight to Minsk for the first game of the season, almost the entire team died in a plane crash. The Yak-42 plane, on which the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv was flying, crashed a few seconds after takeoff from the Yaroslavl Tunoshna airport. One of the team's star players was Alexander Galimov, through whose efforts the team scored seven wins and two losses in the pre-season matches. It was Galimov who scored the last goal in Lokomotiv's games before the plane crash. Galimov survived the crash, but died in hospital five days later. The rest of the players, as well as the coaches and technical staff of the team, died on the spot, as did the rest of the passengers and crew members, with the exception of crew engineer Alexander Sizov. The cause of the disaster was recognized as a crew error, which, as it turned out, was not sufficiently trained to fly on machines of this type.

The plane crash that changed wrestling

This plane crash resulted in serious injuries to the participants and ended two careers. However, if the injuries of those who survived were more serious, the entire sports and entertainment industry would change beyond recognition. Promoter David Crocket and four wrestlers, Mr. Wrestling II, Bobby Bruges, Johnny Valentine and Ric Flair, were on board a private Cessna 310 flying from Charlotte to Wilmington, North Carolina on September 4, 1975. The plane crash was the result of an error by the crew, who incorrectly calculated the amount of fuel. As the survivors admitted, when the plane began to fall, they were sure that this was the end. However, only the pilot died in the crash, dying from his injuries two months later. Valentine was paralyzed and his career ended. Bruges also retired from the sport, although he retained the ability to walk. Why could this disaster change the face of the industry? The fact is that Flair and Valentine, according to legend, were the "bad guys" who feuded with Mr. Wrestling, and the industry for a long time tried to hide the truth about the disaster by not telling anyone about Mr. Wrestling's participation in that flight. He himself, fortunately, managed to support the cover legend - remaining alive and well, Mr. Wrestling entered the ring just two weeks after the accident.

Plane crash "Grand Torino"

Italian, and perhaps world football, did not know a team that had such undeniable superiority over rivals as Grand Torino - such a nickname was given to the team of the Italian football club Torino in the 1940s. The team won five national cups in a row and continued to win until a plane crash on May 4, 1949 claimed the lives of 18 players and 13 team members. Grand Torino was a hand-picked team: Torino owner Ferruzio Novo was one of the first professionals in the world of sports to put talent scouting on a professional footing.
The Torino club won league titles from 1941 until 1949, with the exception of 1945-45, when there was no national championship. In the 1949 championship, they were also considered the undisputed favorites until the day of the plane crash that happened during the return of the players from a friendly game in Lisbon. The cause of the accident was the pilot's error, which lost control in bad weather conditions. The National Football Federation, in the end, decided to award the team the championship title in 1949 as a sign of supreme justice: after all, if that unfortunate accident had not happened, the team would undoubtedly have received it.

Busby Babies plane crash in Munich

The "Busby Babies" who came to big football from junior school pupils of Manchester United head coach Matt Busby were very young - they were all barely twenty. However, pupils youth team Having played together since childhood, Manchester were a close-knit professional team, and after joining the first team they won the English championship twice - in the 1955-56 and 1956-57 seasons. Fans adored them not only for their talent, but also for the fact that they were all pupils of the club, and not players bought from other clubs, which was just in vogue at that time. Alas, their success was interrupted by a plane crash in Munich on February 6, 1958, in which eight key players of the team were killed, and two more were seriously injured. The plane, which was trying to take off during a snowstorm, barely got off the ground and soon crashed. The catastrophe made such a depressing impression on the British that even the queen expressed her personal condolences not only to the families and friends of the victims, but to the people of England as a whole.

Death in a plane crash of the American figure skating team

In 1961, figure skating in the United States was at its peak. Leader of the national team figure skating, Lawrence Owen, even appeared on the eve of the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague on the cover of the most popular Sports Illustrated magazine. Two days after the issue of the magazine was published, Owen and the rest of the national team were tragically killed in a plane crash in Brussels. The plane that brought the skaters to Europe exploded during an emergency landing. All 72 passengers, including the national team athletes and their families, died instantly. The only survivor was a dog flying in the luggage compartment. The world of figure skating was shocked. The World Championships in Prague were canceled after the news of the disaster, and the Americans were so shocked that they lost interest in figure skating for a long time, undermined by bad memories. Even President Kennedy was so shocked that his brother, Senator Robert Kennedy, addressed the people with words of condolence on his behalf.

Death of the "Strongest"

The Bolivian team "The Strongest" had such a self-confident name for a reason: it really shone in the national championship for many years. In September 1969, the team flew to a friendly match in Santa Cruz. Having played, the players of the "Strongest" on September 26, 1969, on a DC-6 plane, went to their homeland, to the city of La Paz. But it was on this day that a military coup took place in the country. In the confusion, the plane with the players mysteriously disappeared from the radar and was found only a day later crashed near the village of Viloko. All passengers - 81 people - were killed, including 17 football players, the team's coach and manager, and a technical officer.

Death of the Marshall University American football team

For the small town of Huntington in West Virginia, 1970 was a year of success for Marshall University's local football team, the Thundering Horde. Being a team local importance, "Horde" rarely traveled by plane, and the joint flight on November 14, 1970 was almost the first in her practice. Why the plane crashed, the investigation failed to figure it out. There were 37 team members on board, including 9 coaches, and a number of fans. Given the death toll, this disaster is considered the most massive tragedy in the history of American sports.

The death of "Pakhtakor"

The death of the Pakhtakor football team is perhaps the most famous tragedy in the history of Soviet sports. Tashkent "Pakhtakor" was one of the most successful football teams in the USSR. On August 11, 1979, the team flew on a TU-134 Minsk plane to meet with Dynamo Minsk. The controller noticed too late that the plane was dangerously approaching another TU-134 in the air. He gave the command to the planes to disperse, but the command was not accepted by the crews - and the wing of one of the planes pierced the fuselage of the other. This caused both vehicles to explode mid-air. All 178 passengers on both flights were killed, including 17 Pakhtakor players and coaches. According to rumors, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev flew that day, which caused confusion on the airways. Despite the tragedy, the surviving Pakhtakor players returned to the field just 12 days after the tragedy to continue playing in the USSR championship, thus paying tribute to their dead comrades.

Deaths of Evansville Basketball Players

In 1977, the basketball team at the University of Evansville was preparing for a difficult start to the season. The main problem of the team was the departure of the coach, Arad McCutchen, who worked with the team for many years. McCutchen was very popular in Evansville: Time magazine even called him the "pride and passion" of the local basketball team. But the "Purple Aces" were not going to give up, although the season started badly: three defeats against one victory. Nevertheless, the members of the team were determined when they went to the game with the team of the University of Central Tennessee on December 3, 1977. The flight was delayed for several hours due to bad weather. When the plane nevertheless took off from the ground, it stayed in the air for only a minute and a half, after which it crashed to the ground. Among the causes of the disaster was later named, in particular, the overload of the luggage compartment. The crash killed 17 crew members. Later, the University of Evansville opened the Weeping Basketball Memorial in honor of the dead.

Death of the Zambian national team

The Zambian football team of 1993 was considered the best in the history of the country. Football has always been popular in this African country, especially during the reign of President Kenneth Kaunda, who spared no expense for its development. After the removal of Kaunda, there was less money, but the national team, despite the poverty, remained one of the best in Africa. However, the team had to cut back on everything, including travel expenses. To fly to the World Cup qualifying match against Senegal in Dakar, the team had to rent a Zambian Air Force plane. Alas, the national air force was in a deplorable state. April 27, 1993 during the flight, one of the aircraft's engines caught fire. The pilot made a fatal mistake by turning off the second engine, after which the plane completely lost control and crashed. All 18 players on board were killed.

American boxing team plane crash

As you know, the US team, among 65 countries of the world, boycotted the Moscow Olympics-80. However, the US boxing team would not have been able to take part in the Olympic competitions due to the terrible plane crash that occurred on March 14, 1980 and claimed the lives of 14 athletes and 8 team members. The boxers were on their way to compete in Poland when their plane crashed on approach to Warsaw. A total of 87 passengers died in the crash. Experts consider the champion of the Pan American Games Lemuel Steeples to be the best of the crashed athletes.

The death of "eleven motley"

These Dutch footballers of Surinamese origin were true humanitarians: they played in charity matches, thus raising funds to work with children from socially disadvantaged areas, involving them in sports and helping them find the right path in life. They were called "eleven motley" - as a sign that they bring bright colors into the lives of children from the poorest families. In fact, there were more team members - only about two dozen people. The next charity match with their participation was to be held in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname. But it did not take place: fifteen team members died in a plane crash in Paramaribo on June 7, 1989, which killed 176 passengers and crew members of an aircraft flying from Europe to South America. Two more members of the team, including Dutch football legend Ruud Gullit, refused to fly at the very last moment, and therefore escaped. As it turned out later, the disaster occurred due to the fact that when landing at Paramaribo airport, the plane touched the top of a tree.

Death in Hendrick Motosport team plane crash

The death of a rider on the track, although rare, does happen, but the death of riders in a plane crash is an exceptional case. Meanwhile, that's exactly what happened on October 24, 2004, when 10 people from the Hendrick Motorsport team died in a plane crash, including the son of team owner Rick Hendrick, NASCAR driver Ricky Hendrick, his older brother and nieces. On this day, the team successfully took part in competitions at the autotrack in Marysville. The report of the crash, which claimed the lives of 10 people, came within minutes of the news of the victory of the rider Jimmie Johnson on the track. The cause of the crash would later be cited as a combination of pilot error and severe foggy weather.

Oklahoma cowboy plane crash

In November 2011, the Oklahoma women's basketball team lost head coach Kurt Budke and his assistant Miranda Serna. They and two other passengers were killed in the crash of a small private jet on which the coach and his assistant were returning home from a trip where they selected new players for their team. Kurt Budke girls from the basketball team considered a real father, and his assistant was treated like a sister. In addition to them, State Senator Olin Branstetter and his wife Paula were killed in the crash. The most incredible thing is that for five years the commission investigating the disaster has not been able to establish its cause. At the controls of the plane was Senator Branstetter, who did not report to controllers about turbulence or other weather-related problems. The version that the senator became ill and lost control of the car was not confirmed either. No technical faults were found either. Why the plane crashed is still a mystery.

Death of the Oklahoma Cowboys

The long history of tragedies associated with the University of Oklahoma began in January 2001, when 10 members of the university's men's basketball team were killed in a small private jet crash. The team was returning home after the loss to the Colorado Buffalos to regroup and regroup before next games. But the pilot of the plane lost his bearings during a snowstorm, and the car crashed to the ground. Players and fans of the Oklahoma Cowboys still remember the dead players and coaches with the mourning anthem "Remember the Ten." In addition, a memorial has been erected on campus in honor of the dead, and sports competitions are held every year to commemorate the dead.

The plane, on board of which, among other passengers, was brazilian team football "Chapecoense", crashed on 29 November. The players were heading to the city of Medellin, where the final match of the Copa Sudamericana against Atlético Nacional was to take place. According to the latest data, out of 72 passengers and 9 crew members who were on board, six people survived. Photos and videos appear on the Internet that were taken before departure and in the cabin.

The tragedy occurred in the province of Anticoia in the La Unión region, 50 kilometers from the city of Medellin. After it became known that a plane crash had occurred, help was sent to the crash site. Access to the crash site and the rescue operation was difficult due to adverse weather conditions - heavy rain. Six survivors were found at the scene.

According to preliminary data, the plane crash was either due to a lack of fuel or due to electrical problems. Experts note that the plane used up all the fuel, for this reason it did not explode and there were living people. Experts also suggest that the crew of the aircraft deliberately circled over the area and used up all the fuel so that the plane did not explode when it fell. The aircraft broke into two parts. After hitting the ground, 75 people were killed. According to press reports, stewardess Jimena Suarez, journalist Rafael Enzel, as well as four Chapecoense players survived: defender Alan Ruschel, goalkeepers Marcos Danilo and Jackson Folman and an unnamed football player. Later, information appeared in the media that another living player had been found - Neto, the team's defender.

After the tragedy, the President of Brazil declared three days of mourning. In the city of Chapeco, mourning will last 30 days.

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