The football team on the plane
An
airplane with 81 people on board, including players from a Brazilian
football team heading to Colombia for a regional tournament final,
has crashed on its way to Medellin's international airport.
Medellin's Mayor Federico Gutierrez said that it is
possible there are survivors.
"It's a tragedy of huge proportions," Mr
Gutierrez told Blu Radio on his way to the site in a
mountainous area outside the city where the chartered aircraft is
believed to have crashed shortly before midnight local time..
He said on Twitter that ambulances and rescuers were on
their way. It is not clear what caused the crash.
The Colombian Civil Aviation Authority said that the
Lamia Airlines aircraft "had issues over El Cerro Gordo, close
to La Union in the state of Antioqiua."
Medellin's airport confirmed that the aircraft, which
departed from Bolivia, was transporting the Chapecoense football team
from southern Brazil, which was scheduled to play the Copa Sudamerica
finals against Atletico Nacional on Wednesday in Colombia's Medellin.
The aviation authority also confirmed the presence of the footballers
on board.
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