A plane carrying 81 passengers, including Brazilian first division team Chapecoense, crashed in a mountainous region of Colombia late on Monday with officials confirming 75 people had been killed and six survived.
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The survivors are Chapecoense players Alan Ruschel, Jackson Ragnar Follmann and Helio Hermito Zampier, plus flight attendant Ximena Suarez, aircraft mechanic Erwin Tumiri, and journalist Rafael Valmorbida.
Three days of national mourning has been declared in Brazil following the tragedy, while all soccer games have been postponed for a week as a mark of respect.
The charter plane, operated by LaMia, was en route from Bolivia to the Colombian city of Medellin with Chapecoense scheduled to play the first of a two-game Copa Sudamericana final against Colombian side Atletico Nacional on Wednesday. The game has been postponed with it unlikely to ever go ahead as what what meant to the greatest week in Chapecoense’s history has turned into a tragedy.
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While Atletico Nacional are also said to have asked for the Copa Sudamericana title to be awarded to Chapecoense.
Initially the flight had left Sao Paulo and then stopped in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on its way to Medellin in northern Colombia. Of the seven survivors of the crash, one died after being rescued and three are Chapecoense players with defender Ruschel confirmed to be in hospital, plus goalkeepers Follmann and Marcos Danilo also rescued. However, the club has since confirmed that Danilo had died from his injuries.
Suarez, Tumiri and Valmorbida also survived the crash, while a seventh survivor was later pulled from the wreckage and it has now been confirmed as defender Neto.
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