Funeral honors begin in Brazil for Chapecoense plane crash victims

Brazil has declared a three-day mourning period.

The chartering was handled by three people working for the Brazilian club – the logistics director, the administrative director and the president – who all were aboard the plane and died in the crash.

Seventy-one people died, including most of the Chapecoense Brazilian soccer team.

More than 100,000 people – about half of the city’s population – are expected to attend the service later in honour of the team, whose fairy tale season was tragically cut short.

Some 100,000 fans, about half the city’s population, are likely to attend, as is Brazilian President Michel Temer and Gianni Infantino, president of world soccer governing body Federation Internationale de Football Association.

Doctors also said 24-year-old goalkeeper Jakson Ragnar Follmann would not need his left leg amputating, after they were forced to remove his right one. The rest of the victims, including 19 players, will be transported to other cities around Brazil.

A minute’s silence has been held before matches across the world this week, while teams have worn black armbands to commemorate the victims.

A funeral employee walks past coffins containing the remains of the victims of the Colombian air tragedy are lined up in the parking garage of the San Vicente funeral home in Medellin, Colombia, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. The country has suspended LAMIA’s operating license and replaced the national aviation authority’s management.

According to the New York Times, the recording was obtained on Wednesday by the Columbian media.

In a leaked tape, the pilot, Miguel Quiroga, can be heard warning of a “total electric failure” and “lack of fuel”.

He requested urgent permission to land before the audio went silent.

Alfredo Bocanegra, head of Columbia’s civil aviation agency, told reporters that planes must have extra fuel to fly at least 30 to 45 minutes to another airport in a case of an emergency.

An airport official raised the concern after checking the plane’s flight plan, Bolivia’s Deber newspaper said.

Bolivian officials have not yet commented on the report. He said there should be a “profound investigation” to determine whether Vargas’ son favored the airline, even though the flight range exceeded the fuel capacity on its British-built Aerospace 146 Avro RJ85.

Marissol Dias, who volunteers for the charity that organized the placing of the origami crane figures at the stadium, said she was overwhelmed by the community’s response.