Colombia plane crash survivor released from hospital

Bolivia has shut down charter company LaMia and ordered a probe into its operations.

The government did not explain the decision.

Authorities are still investigating what caused the crash.

Numerous victims were players and coaches from a small-town Brazilian soccer team that was headed to the finals of one of South America’s most prestigious tournaments after a fairy-tale season that had captivated their soccer-crazed nation.

He said CONMEBOL, the governing body of South American football, was not involved in choosing LaMia.

Seventy-one people, including most of the players of the leading Brazilian football team, were killed after LaMia Flight CP2933 crashed on the approach to Medellín’s main airport leaving just six survivors.

A harrowing recording has surfaced of the pilot communicating with air traffic controllers moments before the crash. “You offer us enormous comfort _ a light in the darkness when all of us are trying to understand the unexplainable”.

The charter plane, which apparently suffered an electrical failure, ran out of fuel before it slammed into the side of a mountain not far from the airport, authorities said.

The operator responds: “Runway clear and expect rain on the runway Lima-Mike-India 2933”.

The man can then be heard asking where somebody is.

The air traffic controller said in an email sent to her colleagues and released to local media Thursday that she had done everything humanly and technically possible to save the plane.

In a statement, she defended her actions that night.

Colombia’s civil aeronautics agency said the time sequence of the tape was “inexact”, and had no comment on the content of the recording.

The paper said she described how the airline’s clerk, who died in the crash, had told her the pilot was confident he had enough fuel.

The plane’s flight recorders are to be examined in the UK. The body has opened an investigation regarding the matter.

A volunteer hangs paper cranes on the gates of the stadium Arena Conda, home of the Chapecoense Brazilian soccer team, in Chapeco, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 2, 2016. “The PSL joins the football family in mourning the tragic incident”.

Chapecoense acting president Ivan Tozzo said Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FIFA President Gianni Infantino were to be at the funeral. And now he’s like this, in a coffin.

The city is planning a large memorial service that day, with more than 100,000 people – half the city’s population – expected to attend.

Also on Thursday, the president of Brazilian club Atletico Mineiro said the team would not play its final-round match of the Brazilian league season against Chapecoense.

Two of the Bolivian flight crew and a journalist also survived along with the three players. Fellow defender Helio Neto was in intensive care with severe trauma to his skull, thorax and lungs.

As well as the majority of the first team, Chapecoense’s manager Caio Junior and his coaching staff were among the 76 who died in the disaster.

Doctors said 24-year-old goalkeeper Jakson Ragnar Follmann would not lose his left leg, after having his right one amputated.