Paris (AFP) – Reaction from around the world to the plane crash in Colombia carrying the Brazilian top-flight team Chapecoense among the 81 on board: "Brazilian football is in mourning. It is such a tragic loss. My sincere condolences to the families of the deceased. Rest in peace." – Brazilian football legend Pele "Sadly those […]

Bogota (AFP) – Colombian club Atletico Nacional called on football authorities Tuesday to hand the Copa Sudamericana title to their opponents, Brazilian side Chapecoense, as a tribute to the team's players killed in a plane crash. The Colombian side made the request to regional football confederation CONMEBOL in a statement. It asked of CONMEBOL "that […]

La Unión (Colombia) (AFP) – A plane carrying a Brazilian football team crashed in the mountains in Colombia, killing an estimated 75 people while six survived, including several players, officials said Tuesday. The LAMIA airlines charter declared an emergency at around 10:00 pm (0300 GMT Tuesday), reporting it had suffered "electrical failures," and crashed a […]

Sao Paulo (AFP) – Traveling on the doomed airliner that crashed in Colombia overnight were the players and staff of a Brazilian football club about to complete a fairytale journey from unknowns to would-be South American champions. The LAMIA charter plane went down near Medellin late Monday with 81 people aboard and so far only […]

Bogota (AFP) – A charter plane carrying a Brazilian football team crashed in the mountains in Colombia late Monday, killing 76 people, officials said. They said five survived the disaster. The LAMIA airlines charter declared an emergency at around 10 pm local time" 0300 GMT Tuesday, reporting it had suffered "electrical failures," and crashed a […]

Bogota (AFP) – The death toll from the crash in Colombia of an airliner carrying a Brazilian football team rose to 76 Tuesday as officials said only five people survived the disaster. "We were able to rescue six people alive but one of them died on the way to the hospital," Jose Gerardo Acevedo, a […]