Chapecó (Brazil) (AFP) – The bodies of 50 players, coaches and staff from a Brazilian football team tragically wiped out in a plane crash in Colombia arrived home Saturday for a massive funeral. Fireworks lit up the sky over the stadium in Chapeco, in southern Brazil, as the Hercules cargo planes touched down at the […]

Chapecó (Brazil) (AFP) – -The first of two Brazilian air force planes carrying the remains of a football team killed in a plane crash arrived Saturday in the city of Chapeco in southern Brazil. Fireworks lit up the sky as the plane touched down in pouring rain after a flight from Medellin, where Cinderella-story club […]

Chapecó (Brazil) (AFP) – A small Brazilian city will hold a massive funeral Saturday to honor its football team, wiped out at the height of their glory in a plane crash that killed 71 people. The southern city of Chapeco is expecting some 100,000 people — half its population — to descend on Conda Arena, […]

Medellín (Colombia) (AFP) – The bodies of the 71 victims killed in a plane crash in Colombia that wiped out a Brazilian football team began arriving home Friday, as mourners prepared a massive funeral. The remains of the first victim, Paraguayan crew member Gustavo Encina, were handed over to his family early Friday in a […]

Sydney (AFP) – FIFA President Gianni Infantino Friday postponed a trip to Australia so he can attend funeral services for the footballers killed in a plane crash in the Colombian mountains. The global football chief had been due in Sydney on Monday after attending the under-20 Women's World Cup final in Papua New Guinea, but […]

Chapecó (Brazil) (AFP) – Fans of Brazil's Chapecoense football club whose team was wiped out in a Colombian air crash crammed into the home stadium for tearful prayers around the empty pitch. The stadium in Chapeco, southern Brazil, was a solid wall of green as fans and mourners dressed in the team shirt stood shoulder […]

Medellín (Colombia) (AFP) – Fans mourned Wednesday for a Brazilian football team decimated in a plane crash that killed 71 people in Colombia, as a recording emerged of the panicked pilot reporting he was out of fuel. Authorities are still investigating what caused the charter flight to crash in the mountains outside Medellin as it […]

Medellín (Colombia) (AFP) – The pilot of a plane that crashed in the Colombian mountains, killing 71 people, radioed the control tower in a panic to report he had run out of fuel, according to a recording aired Wednesday by Colombian media. "Ma'am, LAMIA 2933 has a total failure, total electrical failure, without fuel," pilot […]

Chapecó (Brazil) (AFP) – Thousands of Brazilians who had been expecting to spend Wednesday night cheering their beloved Chapecoense football team in its hour of glory were instead gathering at the home stadium to mourn the dead players. The reality of late Monday's crash in the Colombian mountains of a charter plane carrying the team […]

La Paz (AFP) – The plane that crashed in Colombia killing 71 people including Brazilian footballers had skipped a scheduled refueling stop, media quoted a representative of the Bolivian airline as saying Wednesday. "The plane should have refueled in Bogota," but instead bypassed the Colombian capital and headed straight for its destination Medellin, Gustavo Vargas, […]

Medellín (Colombia) (AFP) – Colombia was investigating Wednesday what made a charter plane crash into its northwestern mountains, killing 71 people including most of a Brazilian football team and 20 journalists. Football fans were in tears in the team's hometown of Chapeco and their opponents mourned in the Colombian city of Medellin, where the doomed […]

La Unión (Colombia) (AFP) – A plane that crashed in the mountains of Colombia, killing 71 people, including members of a Brazilian football team, may have run out of fuel, a Colombian military source told AFP. "It is very suspicious that despite the impact there was no explosion. That reinforces the theory of the lack […]

La Unión (Colombia) (AFP) – Here's what we know — and don't know — about flight LMI 2933, which crashed into the Colombian mountains Monday night with a Brazilian football team on board, killing 71 people. Six people survived. – What happened? – The charter flight from the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz reported "electrical […]

Chapecó (Brazil) (AFP) – Fans of Chapecoense, the Brazilian football club enjoying a fairy tale season until almost wiped out in a plane crash, gathered outside the stadium in shock and disbelief Tuesday. All year the once struggling, impoverished club had delighted the people of Chapeco, a city of about 200,000 in Santa Catarina state. […]

La Unión (Colombia) (AFP) – The football world was plunged into mourning Tuesday after a plane carrying a Brazilian team crashed in the mountains in Colombia, killing 75 people with six survivors, officials said. Football legends Pele and Maradona as well as current superstar Lionel Messi led tributes to the players of Chapecoense Real. Having […]