Police confirm 76 dead in Chapecoense plane crash

“#FuerzaChape.” – Barcelona and Argentina star Lionel Messi on Facebook.

The club was having the best season in its 43-year history, heading to the first of two matches in the final of the Copa Sudamericana, the continent’s No. 2 club tournament.

“The pain is bad. It is very hard, a very great tragedy”, Tozzo told SportTV.

Returning from a European cup match in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), the plane crashed in Munich, killing 23 people, including eight players and three of the club’s staff members. BAE 146s and the related Avro RJ models – of which the crashed plane was one of – can have a range of about 1,700 nautical miles (1,955 miles, 3,150 kilometers), according to David Dorman, a spokesman for BAE.

At daybreak, dozens of bodies were quickly collected into white bags while rescuers scavenged through pieces of the plane’s fuselage strewn across the muddy mountainside.

– There were 20 Brazilian journalists among the dead.

Colombia’s civil aviation head, Alfredo Bocanegra, said by Tuesday morning, there were 75 confirmed fatalities, with six injured survivors.

Minutes before he took his last breath, Marcos Danilo spoke to his wife from a hospital bed in Medellin, Colombia, according to multiple Brazilian news outlets.

The survivors were taken to local hospitals and a search was mounted in the rugged terrain for the rest of those on the plane.

It reported he was “stabilizing” in intensive care.

“The South American Football Confederation confirms that it has been notified by Colombian authorities that the plane on which the Atletico Chapecoense of Brazil delegation suffered an accident on its arrival to Colombia”.

Flowers and messages next to the Chapecoense soccer team flag outside Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, Brazil.

“The important thing here, seeing that there might be survivors, it’s saving lives”. “Now we’ve arrived here-I won’t say at our peak but known around the country-a tragedy like this happens”.

“The group was like a family”.

It crashed at around 10 p.m. ET on Monday while on its way from Santa Cruz in Bolivia to Medellin’s worldwide airport, which is located at an elevation of 7,000 feet.

British Aerospace, which is now known as BAE Systems, says that the first 146-model plane took off in 1981 and that just under 400 were built in total in the United Kingdom through 2003.

It was Colombia’s worst air accident since more than 160 people died on an American Airlines plane in 1995 in a mountainous area near Cali.

“We found ourselves faced with a disastrous scene”.

“It appears that the plane ran out of fuel”, Elkin Ospina, the mayor of the nearby town of La Ceja, told AFP.

Two other players, Jackson Follman and Zampier Neto, journalist Rafael Valmorbida and flight attendant, Ximena Suarez and Erwin Tumiri, are reported to have survived.

Chapecoense entered the running for the Copa Sudamericana for the first time in 2015 and didn’t disappoint.

In 1993, 18 players and five officials from Zambia’s national team died in an air crash. But that game, against Atletico Nacional, will never be played.

Just three years ago the team had won its way back into Brazil’s top league, the Serie A, for the first time in 35 years.

The Nacional team was supposed to travel to Curitiba, Brazil, for a second finals match with Chapecoense on December 6. We shared this dream with all our emotion.