The tragedy happened in the morning Moscow time, when the plane traveled most of the way to Medellin International Airport in the Colombian capital Bogotá.

There were 81 people on board, of which nine were crew members and 72 were passengers. Among the passengers were 27 Chapecoense footballers, as well as members of the club's delegation and journalists.

About the exact number of victims on this moment not reported, and in the club's Facebook group, fans leave messages on the wall with the hashtag "live".

The actions of rescuers are complicated by the fact that the plane crashed in a mountainous area, however, in one of the Colombian hospitals, they first reported the arrival of five passengers who survived the accident, and then another five.

Radio station 360 Radio Colombia reported that the crew of the charter flight signaled to ground services that the fuel level was low. The pilot decided to make an emergency landing, but the plane did not reach the nearest airport and crashed in the La Unión area, 37 km from its destination - the city of Medellin.

In addition, the first photos from the scene appeared on the network. One of them shows the emblem of the Brazilian club.

By latest information, survived from ten to 16 people, and among them there are definitely three Chapecoense players: Alan Ruschel, Danilo Padilla and Jackson Follman. At the same time, it is reported that at least 25 people have already become victims of the tragedy.

The fact that the plane's electronics had failed was known to dispatchers even before the crash after a message from the pilot, who then circled over the ground for a long time, choosing a place for an emergency landing so that the plane would not explode on contact with the ground, which helped some passengers survive.

Chapecoense was founded in 1973, is a five-time champion of the state of Santa Catarina and is now ninth in the ranking of the Brazilian Football Confederation.

In 2013, the club from Chapeco, having finished second in Serie B, returned to the elite national division after 35 years.

It is interesting that the first place in that year in the Serie B championship was taken by the most titled Brazilian club Palmeiras, which this season, a round before the finish of the championship, scored the ninth victory in the Brazilian national championship.

It was in the match against Chapecoense, which currently occupies the ninth place in the championship table, that Palmeiras secured the title, winning 1-0.

Chapecoense, after returning to the elite, took first 15th and then 14th place and, following the results of the 2015 season, qualified for the second most important club tournament South America- Sudamericana Cup.

According to the rules of the tournament, the Brazilian teams start in it from the second stage with confrontations with their compatriots. To break into the main draw, Chapecoense had to overcome the resistance of Cuiaba from Serie C, which was done, although not without difficulty (0:1, 3:1).

In the main round, Chapecoense first faced Independiente of Argentina and advanced to the quarter-finals after two goalless draws and a penalty shoot-out win.

In the quarterfinals brazilian team beat the Colombian "Junior" (0:1, 3:0), and then in the semifinals due to a goal in a foreign field was stronger than the Argentinean "San Lorenzo" (1:1, 0:0).

In the final, Chapecoense was supposed to meet with another Colombian team - Atlético Nacional. The first meeting was scheduled for November 30 and was to be held in the Colombian capital, and on December 7, the opponents were to play in Chapeco.

The fate of the final is currently unknown, but, apparently, CONMEBOL (South American Football Confederation) will cancel the confrontation, and the winner will not be revealed this year.

by the most famous football player Chapecoense is a midfielder who played for Atlético Madrid from 2007 to 2010.

The only legionnaire of the team, the 28-year-old Argentine in 2012, played 13 meetings for the Spanish Villarreal, scoring one goal.

by the most promising footballer team is a Brazilian youth team player, bought before this season from Gremio by German Hoffenheim, but loaned to Chapecoense.

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A plane crashed in Colombia, carrying 81 people, most of them football players and employees of the Brazilian club Chapecoense, who were heading to the final match of the Copa Sudamericana. 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 of the 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 six years in Portugal for Maritima 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 death sports teams in plane 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 of Russian football and hockey in the 1950s, missed this plane.

Some plane crashes have forever entered the history of sports because famous athletes were on board the crashed planes. Days.Ru remember the most terrible crashes, the victims of which were famous sports teams.

Football club "Torino" in the middle of the last century was a strong competitor of their countrymen from the team "Juventus". At the time of the tragedy, he was in the lead in the Italian championship with a four-point lead over the nearest rival. The plane crash happened as the Torino players were returning home from Portugal after losing 3-4 to Benfica in Lisbon. On board the Fiat G 212CP were 18 team members, as well as the club's management and several journalists - a total of 31 people.

The plane crashed near the airport in Torino. Due to the strongest fog, the flight crew lost their orientation in space. The aircraft veered sharply, and it rapidly crashed. All passengers and crew on board were killed. Of the entire team, only Lauro Toma remained alive at that time. He was lucky: due to an earlier injury, he escaped a terrible fate by not flying to the match in Lisbon.

The charred bodies of the victims were placed in the mortuary of the Turin hospital. Relatives of the dead were not involved in the painful identification procedure, so as not to injure the sight of mutilated remains. This heavy burden was taken on former coach"Torino" Vittorio Pozzo.

A British European Airways plane carrying Manchester United footballers crashed at Munich Airport more than half a century ago. On board were the club's players, several coaches, fans and journalists. Of the 44 people, 23 died. 19 wounded were taken to the Munich hospital.

The disaster happened when the team was flying from Belgrade after the match with the local "Red Star" in the Champions League. The airliner refueled on the way in Munich. When he tried to take off, this was prevented by vibrations in the left engine. The pilots made a second attempt to take to the air, but it was also unsuccessful. When the plane took off for the third time, heavy snow began to fall. The aircraft lost speed, broke through the fence at the end of the runway and crashed with its left wing into a house standing nearby.

21 people on board died instantly, the rest lost consciousness. After investigating all the circumstances, the pilot was named the culprit of the crash. However, ten years later, it was possible to establish that the true cause of the disaster was snowfall, due to which the speed of the aircraft dropped sharply, and it could not take off. As a result, the pilot was acquitted.

18 of the best US figure skaters flew from J. Kennedy Airport to Brussels - the athletes had to transfer to another flight to Prague. The team was to perform at the World Championships in the capital of Czechoslovakia. But a few hours later, a brand new Boeing 707, in which the athletes and their relatives were flying, crashed in a wooded area near the village of Berg, near the Belgian capital. All 72 people on board, as well as one person on the ground, were killed.

Among the victims of the crash were US team coach Maribel Vinson-Owen and her daughters Lawrence and Maribel, members of the US national figure skating. Immediately after the tragic news, the 1961 World Championships in Prague were canceled, and new champion figure skaters appeared in the United States only in 1968.

When investigating the causes of the crash, no signs of problems on board were found. Because of what, at an altitude of less than 300 meters, the Boeing engines suddenly increased power and the already released landing gear "retracted" back, still remains a mystery.

On a hot summer day, Tashkent football players flew to Minsk to play a USSR championship match with the local Dynamo club. By a tragic accident, over Dneprodzerzhinsk, at an altitude of eight and a half thousand meters, the Tu-134 collided with another similar airliner. All 178 people on both planes were killed. Among the victims of the crash were 17 football players of the Pakhtakor team.

After the tragedy, the leadership of the USSR decided to leave the club in the football Major League of the country for three years, regardless of the results of its performances in the championships.

The hockey team from Yaroslavl in full strength flew from Tunoshna airport to Minsk, where they were supposed to play their first match of the 2011-2012 season of the Continental hockey league with the local Dynamo.

The plane had difficulty climbing. It crashed into the beacon's antenna behind the runway and crashed near the airport. There were 45 people on board the aircraft. After the disaster, only crew member Alexander Sizov and hockey player Alexander Galimov survived. Doctors fought with all their might for the life of an athlete, but because of terrible injuries incompatible with life, he died a few days later.

After investigating the circumstances of the crash, the IAC came to the conclusion that the direct cause of the tragedy was involuntary pressing the brake pedals during the takeoff run of the aircraft. However, the commission could not establish who exactly made the fatal mistake.

We will remind, earlier it was reported that in the Colombian province of Antioquia, a British Aerospace Avro RJ85 aircraft belonging to the Bolivian airline LAMIA crashed. The liner, carrying 81 people, was en route from Sao Paulo to Medellin.

At the moment, all affected passengers are urgently hospitalized, according to 360 Radio Colombia. Like Dni.Ru, the bodies of 25 people were found at the crash site. Between 10 and 15 people survived the crash of a passenger plane in the province of Antioquia, according to Colombian media. Among them are flight attendant Jimena Suarez, a sports massage therapist, as well as Brazilian football club players Alan Ruchel, Marcos Danilo and Jackson Vollmann.

Five years ago, on September 7, 2011, the hockey Lokomotiv crashed. Official results investigations into the plane crash that claimed the lives of 44 people were announced in October 2014. Vadim Timofeev, deputy general director of the Yak-Service airline, was found guilty. Immediately after the verdict was announced, he was amnestied. Relatives of the victims believe that the true cause of the tragedy has not yet been established.

The pilot hit the brakes

The investigation took about a year. According to the conclusions of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), the aircraft commander or co-pilot unknowingly pressed the brake pedals during the takeoff, and the speed in the final stage of takeoff was lower than necessary.

List of representatives of HC Lokomotiv killed in a plane crash

1. Vyukhin Alexander Evgenievich, 38 years old
2. Liv Stefan Daniel Patrick, 30

Defenders

3. Anikeenko Vitaly Sergeevich, 24 years old
4. Balandin Mikhail Yurievich, 31 years old
5. Dietrich Robert Genrikhovich, 25 years old
6. Kalimulin Marat Natfullovich, 23 years old
7. Rachunek Karel, 32 years old
8. Skrastinsh Karlis Martinovich, 37 years old
9. Trakhanov Pavel Sergeevich, 33 years old
10. Urychev Yuri Olegovich, 20 years old
11. Shuvalov Maxim Alekseevich, 18 years old
12. Salei Ruslan Albertovich, 36 years old

forwards

13. Vasyunov Alexander Sergeevich, 23 years old
14. Vasichek Josef, 30 years old
15. Demitra Pavol, 36 years old
16. Kalyanin Alexander Igorevich, 23 years old
17. Kiryukhin Andrey Anatolyevich, 24 years old
18. Klyukin Nikita Sergeevich, 21 years old
19. Marek Jan, 31
20. Ostapchuk Sergey Igorevich, 21 years old
21. Snurnitsyn Pavel Sergeevich, 19 years old
22. Sobchenko Daniil Evgenievich, 20 years old
23. Tkachenko Ivan Leonidovich, 31 years old
24. Churilov Gennady Stanislavovich, 24 years old
25. Yarchuk Artem Nikolaevich, 21 years old
26. Galimov Alexander Saidgereevich, 26 years old

27. McCrimmon Brad Byron (head coach)
28. Korolev Igor Borisovich (head coach)
29. Karpovtsev Alexander Georgievich (coach)
30. Krivonosov Nikolai Ivanovich (coach)
31. Sidorov Evgeny Vladimirovich (trainer-methodologist)

Technical staff

32. Bakhvalov Yuri Alekseevich (technician)
33. Belyaev Alexander Vladimirovich (technician / massage therapist)
34. Andrey Zimin (doctor)
35. Evgeniy Kunnov (masseur)
36. Kuznetsov Vyacheslav Mikhailovich (masseur)
37. Piskunov Vladimir Leonidovich (administrator)

As concomitant reasons, serious shortcomings were indicated in the retraining of crew members for the Yak-42 aircraft (during the emergency flight, there was a negative transfer of control skills from the Yak-40 to the Yak-42 on takeoff, expressed in the wrong position of the feet on the pedals during the takeoff run); lack of control by the airline over the level of crew training; errors and non-compliance with technological procedures made by the crew during the preparation and calculation of take-off parameters, as well as during the takeoff run; uncoordinated, uncoordinated actions of the crew in the final phase of the run.

In addition, phenobarbital, a sedative drug that is essentially a sleeping pill, was found in the blood of one of the pilots. Flights under the influence of this drug, as well as in the presence of diseases in the co-pilot (problems with sensitivity of the legs), noted by the results of the analysis of medical records, are prohibited by Russian aviation legislation.

The only defendant in the case was Vadim Timofeev, who was the person in charge of controlling the crew's admission to the flight. In particular, he was responsible for organizing flight work, maintaining the qualifications of the flight crew, improving their professional level, conducting training and testing pilots.

Having studied all the circumstances and facts that preceded the tragedy, the investigators found that it was Timofeev who allowed the crew to fly, who did not have the right to do so, because they had not completed retraining to operate the Yak-42 vessel. In addition, the admission of the ship's commander was issued on the basis of falsified documents.

The accused had previously violated safety rules - he did not exercise control over the passage of professional training for pilots, regularly recalled them from training events and, despite the unfinished program, illegally allowed them to fly.

During the investigation, it turned out that the commander who died in the crash made serious mistakes during other flights. At the same time, according to the Investigative Committee, Timofeev practically did not analyze the data of the flight recorders that recorded these errors, and did not take any measures. In addition, the two pilots and the flight mechanic of the deceased crew performed only the third flight together.

"The cause of the crash has not been established"

In October, Timofeev was sentenced to five years in prison, but he was granted amnesty in the courtroom. He never admitted his guilt. “I believe that the main cause of the crash was a violation of balance (the location of passengers and luggage - approx. "Tapes.ru"). The crew was upscale, but the situation was above them. I'm not sure that another crew would have coped in this situation. The flight geography of these guys can be the envy of many professional pilots,” Timofeev said.

Timofeev rejects the explanation of the catastrophe by involuntary pressing on the brake. “I don't believe that pilots slammed on the brakes for such a long time, and none of the pilots do,” he says. According to him, the deceased crew was well prepared and before the crash, the pilots on the same plane flew at least 60 hours, making flights to Makhachkala, Tomsk, Riga, Aktyubinsk.

Relatives of those killed in the plane crash also consider Timofeev innocent and petitioned for the case to be sent for additional investigation. In September 2015, the mothers of the deceased hockey players Artem Yarchuk, Alexander Vasyunov and Ivan Tkachenko were informed of their intention to seek justice. “The main case on the death of our children has not yet been completed by the Investigative Committee,” Anzhelika Yarchuk said. “We will petition for the appointment of new examinations, since, in our opinion, the causes of the disaster have not been established,” Lyubov Vasyunova added.

They demanded a re-examination of the audio conversations of the deceased crew, video recording at the Tunoshna airport on September 7, 2011, an examination of the runway in Yaroslavl and the front landing gear of the crashed Yak-42. They also do not believe in the MAC version of involuntary pressing of the brakes. “So far, the Investigative Committee has not informed us about the progress of the investigation and when it can be taken to court,” Yarchuk said.

The victims have not received adequate compensation. In December 2015, the Moscow City Court left the same amount of insurance compensation to the relatives of a hockey team that died in a plane crash.

The bulk of payments fell on the Lexgarant insurance company, which insured the aircraft's hull and the liability of the air carrier for the amount of approximately $1 million. The amount of payments for each deceased passenger amounted to 2 million rubles.

In addition, all hockey players were insured against accidents in the insurance company SOGAZ as part of the insurance of the teams of the Kontinental Hockey League. The total amount of payments under the package exceeded 90.5 million rubles. Additional accident insurance for the players of this team was carried out by the UralSib company, the insurance amount was 100 thousand rubles for each.

According to the results of an independent investigation into the causes of the plane crash, it was not the actions of one of the pilots that led to the tragedy, but the design flaws of the crashed airliner and violations in the operation of the Yak-Service airline. At the request of the relatives of the deceased hockey players and crew members, the analysis of the tragedy was carried out by test pilot, pilot 1st class Vladimir Gerasimov, Russia's leading expert on air crashes Valentin Dudin and test pilot 1st class Alexander Akimenkov.

Experts concluded that the crash was caused by structural and aerodynamic flaws in the Yak-42 aircraft. According to experts, one of the pilots really could press the brake pedal, but the reason for this should be sought in the imperfection of the design of the pedals, as well as in the absence of recommendations for correct position pilots' feet on the pedals of these liners.

The authors of the investigation believe that since the pilots managed to lift the plane into the air, then initially there was no catastrophic or even emergency situation. Gerasimov said that the immediate cause of the disaster was the lack of lateral controllability of the aircraft, that is, the Yak-42 simply fell on its side in the air.