A plane carrying 72 passengers, including football players from the Brazilian club Chapecoense, crashed in Colombia. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the Univision TV channel.

According to the TV channel, in addition to 72 passengers there were also 9 crew members on board.

Reuters reported that the number of victims of the Lamia Airlines plane crash in Colombia was 76 people. Thus, 5 people survived the plane crash.

Among them are a flight attendant, Chapecoense goalkeeper Danilo, team defender Alan Roshal and a massage therapist. Alan Roshal has a broken hip and an open head wound.

Previously it was reported that 15 survived, but this information was not confirmed.

360 Radio Colombia, citing a police spokesman in the Colombian city of Medellin, reports that search and rescue efforts have been suspended due to the fact that there are no more survivors at the scene of the accident. Up to 500 people took part in the rescue efforts, including military and national police officers.

The mayor of the neighboring town of La Ceja named three possible reasons plane crashes, among them - lack of fuel, technical problems with the plane and weather conditions.

Earlier it was reported that the crew signaled low fuel level. The pilots of the plane that crashed in Colombia sent an emergency message at 22:00 local time about electrical problems on board. About an hour later the plane crashed.

It also became known that the Chapecoense players changed the plane right before departure and boarded the ill-fated airliner. According to El Tiempo, representatives of the Brazilian aviation forced the players to board the plane, which subsequently collapsed.

The athletes were due to arrive at the hotel this morning and begin training at the Estadio Attanasio Girardot to take part in the first Copa Sudamericana final match.

It is reported that the crashed plane had previously transported football players from the Argentine national team and the Colombian Atlético Nacional team. The president of the latter, Juan Carlos de la Cuesta, claims that his players have flown on this airliner more than once.

A photo appeared on Twitter of a local publication where the wreckage of the airliner is clearly visible. Judging by the image, the hull of the aircraft received significant damage from the impact with the ground, while its debris did not scatter over any significant distance.

Media reports that the Chapecoense players managed to take a selfie with the pilot of the airliner that crashed over Colombia. Allegedly, one of the players sent the photo to his girlfriend shortly before takeoff or during a stopover in Bolivia.

Due to the plane crash, the Brazilian Football Federation decided to postpone the final matches indefinitely. Currently, an option is being considered in which Chapecoense and Nacional will field their youth squads for the games.

Famous football players, including Galatasaray player Lukas Podolski and Real Madrid midfielder Lucas Silva, spoke out about the tragedy. The German striker called for prayers for those killed in the plane crash.

The football players were heading to the Colombian city of Medellin to participate in the South American Cup match.

Colombian authorities confirm that a plane carrying a football team crashed in the province of Antioquia in the La Union area. According to radio station 360 Radio Colombia, rescue service personnel have now arrived at the crash site.

Also, according to the radio station, crew members of the plane that crashed in Colombia gave a signal about low fuel level. It is reported that the pilots were planning to make an emergency landing at the nearest airport, but the plane crashed.

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) as a result of explosions on board the F‑27 aircraft, the entire crew died football team"Alliance". 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 friendly match to 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). 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 died football club"Torino" and everyone else on board the plane (including journalists, officials, coach). 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

In Colombia, not far from Medellin, a plane carrying 72 passengers crashed, including football players from the Brazilian club Chapecoense, who were to take part in the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana against the Colombian Atlético Nacional.

Right now, 75 people are known to have died. Famous full list people who got on board - in addition to the football players and the plane crew (there were 9 crew members), there were the heads of Chapecoense, the coaching staff, technical staff, journalists and honored guests. Among the passengers was Paulo Paixao's son, former coach CSKA in physical training.

What team crashed?

Chapecoense is a little-known team in Russia; it does not have players familiar to our fans. Chapecoense languished at the bottom of Serie D for a long time, left it in 2009, and in 7 years reached the final of the Copa Sudamericana. This fall, Chapecoense reached such a high point for the first time in history. The match in Colombia was supposed to be the most important in the club's history...

How did this happen?

Citing Colombian sources, Brazil's Globo reported that the plane lost contact with the ground shortly after midnight and crashed 30 km before its planned arrival. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the pilots as the plane flew over the cities of La Ceja and Aberhorral. The missing plane took off at 15:35 local time from Sao Paulo and landed in Eastern Bolivia, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The plane crashed in the city of La Union, 30 km from Medellin.

It did not explode, largely thanks to the efforts of the crew - the pilots knew that the plane was running out of fuel and circled over the area. If not for this, an explosion would have been inevitable.

The first photographs have already been received from the scene.

Why did this happen?

Mayor of La Ceja Elkin Ospina stated that the cause of the plane crash was a lack of fuel. Another version, in the official release of the aviation authorities, states that the plane crashed due to an electronics failure.

What was the team flying on?

Chapecoense was flying on a charter aircraft CP-2933. At the beginning of the month, the Argentina national team flew on it.

During the fall, the plane split in half. It is important that SR-2933 has already suffered 10 plane crashes, most of them during landing.

What do they say at the scene?

The rescue operation at Medellin airport is being carried out by more than 90 rescuers from the nearby cities of La Union, Rionegro, El Carmen de Vibroal and La Ceja. Heavy rain complicates the situation. A state of emergency has been declared in the city, and Air Force helicopters are searching for surviving passengers. “It’s hard to find survivors, it’s a wooded area,” he says Hugo Botero Lopez, Mayor of La Union.

“We are working with local authorities in connection with the emergency situation that occurred with the Chapecoense aircraft,” the airport wrote on Twitter.

What do they write in Brazil?

Chapecoense posted a short message on their official Facebook page: “Given the conflicting reports coming from different journalistic sources regarding the crash of the plane carrying Chapecoense players, we refrain from commenting and await official statements from the Colombian air authorities. May God be with our athletes, leaders, journalists and other members of the delegation.”
Flamengo's official Twitter account added the Chapecoense logo to its avatar and wrote: "The whole nation is with you."

Are there any survivors?

Yes. Defender taken to La Ceja hospital Alan Ruschel, rescued from the wreckage of the plane. It is reported that Alan has multiple broken bones, hips, and lacerations to the head. At the hospital, he asked the doctors to keep his wedding ring and inquired about the condition of his loved ones. His wife, Amanda Ruschel, wrote on Instagram: "Thank God Alan is in hospital in a stable condition."

The second survivor is the Chapecoense goalkeeper. Danilo Padilla. It’s surprising that before the flight, Rushel posted a photo of himself on Instagram - just with Danilo. Third - Jackson Vollmann. WITH serious injury Head defender Neto was hospitalized.

Another survivor already taken to the hospital is a flight attendant. Jimena Suarez.

Another 9 Chapecoense players, according to Globo Esporte, did not fly to the match and escaped the plane crash.

On Tuesday, November 29, a plane crashed in the province of Antioquia in Colombia, carrying 81 people, including football players from the Brazilian club Chapecoense, which plays in the top division of the national championship. Lenta.ru recalls other plane crashes that cost the lives of entire sports teams.

FC Torino, 4 May 1949

Turin "Torino" at that time was considered a grand Italian football. Club owner Ferrucio Novo made the search for football talent professional, and after the end of World War II the team won the national championship three times in a row (1946, 1947, 1948).

The tragedy happened when the Turin team was returning from Lisbon, where they played a friendly match with the local Benfica (3:4). The three-engine Fiat G.212CP plane crashed due to a pilot error who lost control in bad weather conditions. There was very little time left before landing when the plane’s wing touched the fence of the Superga Basilica built on a hill. The car spun and crashed into the ground at high speed. There were 31 people on board, all died. From the main squad of the team, only one player survived - Lauro Toma, who did not fly to Portugal due to injury.

Manchester United FC, 6 February 1958

The Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador airliner of the British airline British European Airways with English Manchester United football players on board crashed at Munich airport. In total, there were 44 people on the plane - players, coaches, journalists.

Manchester United was returning from Belgrade, where they played a European Cup match against the local Red Star. The plane refueled in Munich, but was unable to take off twice due to heavy snowfall. The crew commander decided to make another attempt, the plane did not gain the required speed, rolled off the runway and crashed into a wooden hangar in which a truck with fuel was parked. There was an explosion. 21 people died on the spot.

FC Pakhtakor, August 11, 1979

By the end of the 1970s, Tashkent Pakhtakor was one of the most popular Soviet football clubs. On August 11, 1979, an Aeroflot TU-134 aircraft, carrying 14 players, a second coach, an administrator and a team doctor, was flying from Tashkent to Minsk. “Pakhtakor” was facing a USSR championship match with “Dynamo” Minsk.

The tragedy occurred in the sky over Dneprodzerzhinsk. An inexperienced air traffic controller noticed late that the plane was dangerously close in the air to another TU-134 flying from Chelyabinsk to Chisinau. The pilots were given the command to disperse, but they did not have time to react. The wing of one of the planes pierced the fuselage of another, and both cars exploded in the air. 178 passengers on both flights, including 17 Pakhtakor players and coaches, died.

12 days after the disaster, the surviving Pakhtakor players continued to play in the USSR Championship, thus paying tribute to their fallen teammates.

Zambia national football team, 27 April 1993

The country's football team had an away match qualifying tournament for the 1994 World Cup with Senegal. Due to funding cuts, the team was forced to lease a Buffalo DHC-5D aircraft owned by the Zambian Air Force. As the car flew over the coast of Gabon, one of the engines caught fire. The plane lost control and crashed into the sea. All 30 people on board, including 18 football players, were killed.

The tragedy united the Zambian team. In 1994 the team won silver and in 1996 bronze medals at the African Cup of Nations.

HC Lokomotiv, September 7, 2011

Yaroslavl "Lokomotiv" was heading to Minsk for a match of the regular championship of the Kontinental Hockey League with the local "Dynamo". The game, scheduled for September 8, was supposed to be the first for the Yaroslavl team in the new season.

The Yak-42 aircraft took off at Yaroslavl Tunoshna airport. The airliner was unable to gain a safe altitude (it rose by 5-6 meters), crashed into a lighthouse antenna 435 meters from the runway and crashed to the ground. There were 45 people on board the plane, 43 died on the spot.

Sitting in the back of the cabin were 26-year-old railway striker Alexander Galimov and aviation and radio-electronic equipment engineer Alexander Sizov. Both were not wearing seat belts, and during the crash they were thrown into the Tunoshonka River. When the athlete was found, he was conscious and was able to give his name to the police. He was hospitalized at the Research Institute named after A.V. Vishnevsky with burns to 90 percent of his body. Five days later he died.

Sizov was hospitalized with burns to 15 percent of his body, fractures of both hips, calvarium, ribs and injuries chest. On the day of the tragedy, he and Galimov were transported to Moscow on an Emergency Situations Ministry plane. At the Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, the victim was put into medicated sleep to avoid shock. Sizov recovered and then worked as an aircraft technician at the Yakovlev Design Bureau in Zhukovsky.

Lokomotiv was forced to spend one season in the Supreme hockey league(VHL), after which he returned to the KHL.

Almost the entire core team of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense, heading to Colombian Medellin for the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana with Atlético Nacional, died in a plane crash that occurred on Tuesday night over Colombian territory. There were 81 people on board, including Chapecoense players, team support staff, journalists and crew members. However, by some miracle, five of them managed to survive. This may help to quickly determine the causes of the tragedy. On this moment There are two main versions: electronics failure and fuel depletion.

Catastrophe

On Monday night, about 30 km from Medellin, a BAe 146 plane of the Bolivian airline LaMia crashed. There were a total of 81 people on board, including almost the entire core team of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense, which was heading to Medellin, where the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana (the second most important club tournament) was scheduled for December 1 South America after the Copa Libertadores), in which the Brazilians had to face the Colombian Atlético Nacional. In addition to the players, coaches and members of the team's support staff, there were also 21 journalists and nine crew members on board.

According to Colombian authorities, at approximately 22:00 local time, the crew of the ship, at that time located at an altitude of approximately 4,500 m, issued a distress signal. He soon disappeared from radar. The rescuers, taking into account the circumstances, in particular the fact that the plane crashed in a mountainous and wooded area, as well as the fact that there was heavy rain in the crash zone, managed to arrive at the scene of the disaster quite quickly. It soon became clear that there were survivors of the plane crash. Among them were two team goalkeepers - Danilo and Jackson Follman, defenders Alan Ruschel and Elihu Zampier, as well as one of the journalists and a flight attendant.

The presence of survivors of the disaster allows us to hope that the investigation into the causes of the tragedy will proceed faster than usual. At the moment, Colombian authorities have practically ruled out the possibility of pilot error. This is prompted by the fact that the crew, even before the plane disappeared from the radar, managed to report that the plane’s electronic equipment was failing. In addition, a flight attendant who survived the crash reported that the flight was normal, but at some point all four engines stopped working at once. In his opinion, it looked like the plane simply ran out of fuel.

Note that the BAe 146 that crashed was produced in 1999. It has been in operation by LaMia Airlines since 2013, and during this time this particular aircraft regularly transported football teams, including the Argentina national team or Atlético Nacional. At the airport in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, from where he was traveling (Brazilian aviation authorities did not give the Bolivian company permission to fly a charter flight to Colombia, citing the fact that such flights should be carried out by either Brazilian or Colombian carriers), they said that the pre-flight inspection did not reveal no problem.

After the disaster became known, Brazilian authorities announced in the country three days of mourning. In turn, the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) has canceled all matches played under its auspices until further notice. Of course, this also applies to the finals of the South American Cup, which now definitely will not take place. Well, it is possible that Chapecoense will be declared the winner. At least, the management of Atlético Nacional already made such a proposal yesterday.

Alexander Petrov