Colombian plane crash toll revised to 71

Six others, including three players, survived the impact after the charter aircraft came down in a mountainous area as it approached Colombia’s second-largest city, Medellin.

Theories include an electrical fault and the plane running out of fuel. Bad weather may have played a part. Colombian officials said four people did not board the flight.

“Brazilian football is in mourning”.

Directors of Brazilian clubs Coritiba, Corinthians, Palmeiras, Portuguesa, Santos and Sao Paulo have all offered to loan players to the Série A club, who were due to compete in their debut Sudamericana final, as have Paraguayan outfit Libertad. Special funds have also been set up. Real Madrid’s squad stopped a training to hold a minute of silence.

“The pain is bad”.

“Ari was like a brother to me”, said Pedro Bassan, a sports and general news reporter at Globo who had worked with Araujo for 20 years.

“It is very hard, a very great tragedy”.

The plane was shattered against a mountainside with the tail end virtually disintegrated.

People surround a church during a mass in memory of the players killed in the disaster.

“It’s one of those things in life”.

“This morning I said goodbye to them and they told me they were going after the dream, turning that dream into reality”, said Plinio David de Nes Filho, the president of the Chapecoense board. “My feelings to all family and friends”.

People cry during a tribute to the victims at the club’s Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco.

The Civil Aeronautics Communication chief of Colombia, Uriel Bedoya, who has just visited the accident site, near Medellín, confirmed by telephone to OGlobo that the experts already have the two black boxes of the aircraft, which will help to determine what happened.

But Danilo later died while receiving hospital treatment, team spokesman Andrei Copetti told The Associated Press.

They included 6 employees from the Brazilian affiliate of Fox Sport television.

The aviation catastrophe sent ripples through Washington and beyond in the United States, which has embraced soccer in the last quarter-century with the success of the women’s national team and the spread of youth leagues.

Brazil’s football federation CBF meanwhile postponed Wednesday’s Brazilian cup final between Gremio and Atletico Mineiro, with further postponements possibly to follow.

Rescue workers inspect the bodies from the wreckage of a plane that crashed into the Colombian jungle with Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense onboard near Medellin, Colombia, November 29, 2016.

“And we, very excitedly, shared this dream with them”.