"Unfortunately, there are no survivors. We have 37 personnel working at the site, and we are expediting the second stage, which involves recovering the bodies and coordinating with judicial police," said Carlos Rios Puerta, director of Antioquia's risk management department. Adverse weather conditio...
By Michael Place RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- There were no scenes of panic in the moments before the plane crash that wiped out a Brazilian football team in Colombia last week, according to one of the survivors. Bolivian flight attendant Erwin Tumiri was one of only six people ...
The plane's pilot, Captain Carlos Mario Ceballos, died in the crash and rescuers found his body in the aircraft. They discovered the doors of the plane ajar and suspected that survivors may have climbed out. A 14-person search-and-rescue team scoured the dense forest for several days befo...
Seventy-two passengers and 9 crew were on a flight from Brazil to Colombia. Some of the passengers were members of the Chapecoense Football Team. They were going to Medellin. The plane crashed and 76 people died. Amazingly, there were a few survivors, two of them being members of the cl...
Alfredo Bocanegra, the head of Colombia's aviation authority, said initial reports suggest the aircraft was suffering electrical problems although investigators were also looking into an account from one of the survivors that the plane had run out of fuel about five minutes from its expected landin...
fuselage strewn across the muddy mountainside.Images broadcast on local television showed three passengers arriving to a local hospital in ambulances on stretchers and covered in blankets connected to an IV. Among the survivors was Chapecoense defender Alan Ruschel, who doctors said suffered spin...
All but three Chapecoense players died in the crash. The other three survivors were one Brazilian journalist who was accompanying the team and two crew members. The plane, which belonged to small company LaMia and had been used by several soccer teams in the past, was discovered to have tak...
Colombia "offers us an unforgettable lesson of humanity ... the survivors and the families of the victim, its people unconditionally joins us in our pain," he added. The crash of the Lamia Flight 2933 occurred on Monday night, killing 71 people, including 19 Chapecoense players, most of ...
The crash site is in a mountainous area outside the Colombian city of Medellin, the destination of the chartered plane as the Brazilian football team is expected to take part in a Wednesday game. Medellin's Mayor Federico Gutierrez said it is possible there are survivors and the rescuers are...
Local officials in the town of Rosas, in Cauca department, said efforts were underway to locate survivors, while the injured people had been taken to an area hospital for treatment. "The mass movement (of earth) sparked by rains ... affected eight homes and we are verifying others," the ...