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On November 29, 2016, a plane crashed in Colombia: read what is known about the tragedy, as well as 9 more stories in which people survived plane crashes

On November 29, a plane crashed in Colombia. The charter plane was flying from Bolivia to the Colombian city of Medellin. There were 81 people on board.

On board were the players of the Brazilian club Chapecoense and the journalists who accompanied them. They were flying to the Copa Sudamericana final match against Atlético Nacional.

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A few minutes after takeoff, the ship crashed. Before the accident, the pilots informed dispatchers about a failure in the electrical system. They were given permission for an emergency landing. However, the plane did not reach its destination - it crashed in the mountains.

Rescuers immediately went to the scene of the plane crash, but heavy rains disrupted the search. According to preliminary data, the plane broke into two parts. However, it did not explode when it hit the ground, which allowed some passengers to survive.

Lack of fuel is cited as the cause of the plane crash in Colombia. The Spanish publication RTVE writes that shortly before the tragedy, the crew gave signals about low fuel levels. After the plane crash, rescuers managed to find six survivors, and three football players who did not fly to Colombia were also lucky.

Considering that the history of aviation knows many cases where people survived plane crashes, the editors of tochka.net decided to tell you about those cases when people, indeed, were born wearing shirts.

• December 23, 1971

A LANSA Lockheed L-188A with 92 passengers on board took off from the capital of Peru, Lima, heading for the city of Pucallpa. 500 km northeast of the country's capital, the airliner fell into a vast thunderstorm area, broke up in the air and fell into the jungle from a height of 2 km. Only 17-year-old Juliana Kepka managed to survive the terrible disaster. The girl was saved by the fact that the chair she was sitting on did not fall off a piece of the fuselage and, together with it, landed on a tree. Freed from her belts, Kepke wandered through the jungle for 10 days until she came to a settlement of Peruvian Indians.

• January 26, 1972

Croatian terrorists blew up a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 passenger plane over the Czech town of Serbska Kamenice. The plane was traveling from Copenhagen to Zagreb, with 28 people on board. The bomb, planted in the luggage compartment, detonated at an altitude of 10,160 meters. 27 passengers and crew were killed, however 22-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived after falling from a height of more than 10 kilometers. The plane crashed into snow-covered trees, and a few hours after the tragedy, a qualified physician turned up at the scene of the disaster and recognized Vesna’s signs of life. Quick help saved the girl's life. The miraculous rescue of Vesna Vulovich was even included in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest altitude jump without a parachute.

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• August 24, 1981

An Aeroflot An-24 passenger plane and a USSR Air Force Tu-16 bomber collided in the Far East. Among the people on these two planes, only 20-year-old Larisa Savitskaya, who was returning with her husband from a honeymoon, survived.

• The girl, who, by the way, was not wearing a seat belt, was saved by the fact that she was in the tail section of a passenger plane, and a piece of the fuselage fell with her onto an island of birch trees. Three days later, rescuers found her with serious injuries. Larisa Savitskaya is mentioned twice in the Guinness Book of Records: as a survivor of a plane crash and as someone who received the smallest compensation - 75 rubles.

August 12, 1985

• A Boeing 747SR-46 of the Japanese airline Japan Airlines crashed 100 km from Tokyo in the area of ​​Mount Takamagahara. Of the 15 crew members and 505 passengers, only four women survived: 24-year-old Japan Airline employee Hiroko Yoshizaki, a 34-year-old passenger on the plane and her eight-year-old daughter Mikiko, and 12-year-old Keiko Kawakami, who was found sitting in a tree. This disaster has been called the largest single aircraft crash in the history of world aviation.

At Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, an Il-85 crashed immediately after takeoff, with 16 people on board: four pilots, 10 flight attendants and two engineers. 200 m after the plane took off from the ground, there was a loss of engine power, the plane fell onto the left wing and crashed, after which an explosion occurred. Then only two flight attendants managed to survive: Tatyana Moiseeva and Arina Vinogradova. Vinogradova, some time after being discharged from the hospital and completing a rehabilitation course, returned to work, and Moiseeva decided not to tempt fate and stay on earth.

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• July 8, 2003

A Boeing 737-2J8C, en route from Port Sudan to Khartoum, crashed in the desert on the shores of the Red Sea. After the crash, the plane caught fire. Of the 117 on board, only a two-year-old Sudanese boy survived without even being injured.

• January 9, 2009

A Gazpromavia Mi-171 helicopter with high-ranking officials on board crashed in the Altai Territory. As the investigation established, three crew members and eight passengers were engaged in shooting animals from the aircraft in violation of all rules. During the hunt, the crew descended in the mountains to an unacceptably low altitude, and the helicopter lost control. The victims of the disaster were five passengers and two crew members. Four, including the helicopter's co-pilot, managed to escape.

• January 16, 2009

Miraculously, 155 passengers of the Airbus A-320, which landed on the surface of Hudson Bay, were saved. A passenger airliner en route to North Carolina collided with a flock of birds minutes after takeoff, causing the ship's engines to shut down. To avoid disaster, the aircraft commander decided to glide to the surface of the water. The landing was rough, but none of the passengers were seriously injured. Within minutes, they were all evacuated by coast guard boats. 78 people were sent for examination with suspected hypothermia.

• June 28, 2009

A single-engine Cessna-172 Skyhawk crashed near Rimrock Lake in Washington state. At the time of the crash, 37-year-old Justin Reed and his two children, 13-year-old Parrin and five-year-old Julia, were on board. Father and son died immediately after colliding with the ground; only the girl managed to escape. Julia suffered a severe head injury and multiple fractures.

A plane crashed in Colombia with 81 people on board, most of them football players and employees of the Brazilian club Chapecoense, who were heading to the final match of the Copa Sudamericana. The airliner, which took off from Brazil, made an intermediate landing in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, after which it headed to Medellin and crashed near the airport of this city. According to various sources, from six to ten people survived.

What happened?

The plane disappeared from radar while approaching the airport in the Colombian city of Medellin on Monday, November 28, at 22:15 local time (06:15 Tuesday Moscow time). It subsequently became known that he crashed in the Colombian province of Antioquia, near the Rionegro River. According to preliminary data, the aircraft commander informed dispatchers at Medellin Cordoba airport about a lack of fuel. The plane was given landing priority, but it was never able to land.

How many people were on board?

There were 72 passengers and nine crew members on board. Including players of the Brazilian club Chapecoense, members of the team's board, representatives of the coaching staff, team technical staff, as well as journalists. Among the club's football players are team captain Kleber Santana, who played for Atlético Madrid and Mallorca for four years, forward Alejandro Martinuccio (defended the colors of Villarreal in Spain), goalkeeper Marcelo Book (played for six years in Portugal for Marítima and "Sporting")

Survivors reported...

Initial information: everyone on the plane died. However, it soon became known that survivors had been found in the area of ​​the plane crash, and 10 people were taken to local hospitals. Then they clarified that rescuers found six survivors, one of them died on the way to the hospital. Rescue work continues at the crash site. A list of all passengers has been published on social networks.

What is the main version of what happened?

The plane could have crashed due to lack of fuel.

What do you know about the football team?

Chapecoense is based in the city of Chapeco, located in the state of Santa Catarina in the south of the country. The club is quite young by football standards, founded in 1973. The debut in the top division of Brazil - Serie A - took place in 1978, but a year later the team lost its registration in the country's football elite and was able to return there only 35 years later - in 2014.

For two seasons in a row (2014, 2015), the team teetered on the brink of relegation, but remained in Serie A, taking 15th and 14th places, respectively, and the current championship turned out to be the most successful for the team - with 52 points for the round before the end of Chapecoense located in ninth place and has long protected itself from being demoted in class. The day before, the club lost away to Palmeiras, which won the Brazilian championship title ahead of schedule in the meeting with Chapecoense.

Where were the players heading?

The players flew to the Colombian city of Medellin, where the first (of two) final match of the Copa Sudamericana against the Colombian team Atlético Nacional was to take place. The game was scheduled for the evening of November 30 (night of December 1, Moscow time).

Plane crashes involving athletes

History knows several cases of sports teams dying in plane crashes. In 2011, a Yak-42D plane carrying the Lokomotiv hockey club crashed during takeoff near the Yaroslavl Tunoshna airport. 26 players from the main team, five coaches and six members of the team’s technical staff were killed.

In 1979, two Tu-134 aircraft collided over Dneprodzerzhinsk, one of which was carrying 14 football players, the second coach, administrator and doctor of the Tashkent football club “Pakhtakor”. All of them died; in total, the tragedy claimed the lives of 178 people.

21 years earlier, an Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador plane with players and coaches of the famous Manchester United football club on board crashed during takeoff in Munich. Eight Red Devils players, the club secretary and two coaches were killed. Nine players survived, including Bobby Charlton, who later became a Manchester United legend. The team's head coach Matt Busby also managed to escape.

In 1950, while landing at Sverdlovsk Koltsovo airport, a Li-2 plane crashed. On board were 13 members of the Air Force hockey team and 6 crew members. Everyone died. By luck, Vsevolod Bobrov, the main star of Russian football and hockey in the 1950s, was late for this plane.

In Colombia, not far from Medellin, a plane carrying 72 passengers crashed, including football players from the Brazilian club Chapecoense, who were to take part in the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana against the Colombian Atlético Nacional.

Right now, 75 people are known to have died. The full list of people who got on board is known - in addition to the football players and the plane crew (there were 9 crew members), there were also Chapecoense executives, coaching staff, technical staff, journalists and honored guests. Among the passengers was the son of Paulo Paixao, a former CSKA physical training coach.

What team crashed?

Chapecoense is a little-known team in Russia; it does not have players familiar to our fans. Chapecoense languished at the bottom of Serie D for a long time, left it in 2009, and in 7 years reached the final of the Copa Sudamericana. This fall, Chapecoense reached such a high point for the first time in history. The match in Colombia was supposed to be the most important in the club's history...

How did this happen?

Citing Colombian sources, Brazil's Globo reported that the plane lost contact with the ground shortly after midnight and crashed 30 km before its planned arrival. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the pilots as the plane flew over the cities of La Ceja and Aberhorral. The missing plane took off at 15:35 local time from Sao Paulo and landed in Eastern Bolivia, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The plane crashed in the city of La Union, 30 km from Medellin.

It did not explode, largely thanks to the efforts of the crew - the pilots knew that the plane was running out of fuel and circled over the area. If not for this, an explosion would have been inevitable.

The first photographs have already been received from the scene.

Why did this happen?

Mayor of La Ceja Elkin Ospina stated that the cause of the plane crash was a lack of fuel. Another version, in the official release of the aviation authorities, states that the plane crashed due to an electronics failure.

What was the team flying on?

Chapecoense was flying on a charter aircraft CP-2933. At the beginning of the month, the Argentina national team flew on it.

During the fall, the plane split in half. It is important that SR-2933 has already suffered 10 plane crashes, most of them during landing.

What do they say at the scene?

The rescue operation at Medellin airport is being carried out by more than 90 rescuers from the nearby cities of La Union, Rionegro, El Carmen de Vibroal and La Ceja. Heavy rain complicates the situation. A state of emergency has been declared in the city, and Air Force helicopters are searching for surviving passengers. “It’s hard to find survivors, it’s a wooded area,” he says Hugo Botero Lopez, Mayor of La Union.

“We are working with local authorities in connection with the emergency situation that occurred with the Chapecoense aircraft,” the airport wrote on Twitter.

What do they write in Brazil?

Chapecoense posted a short message on their official Facebook page: “Given the conflicting reports coming from different journalistic sources regarding the crash of the plane carrying Chapecoense players, we refrain from commenting and await official statements from the Colombian air authorities. May God be with our athletes, leaders, journalists and other members of the delegation.”
Flamengo's official Twitter account added the Chapecoense logo to its avatar and wrote: "The whole nation stands with you."

Are there any survivors?

Yes. Defender taken to La Ceja hospital Alan Ruschel, rescued from the wreckage of the plane. It is reported that Alan has multiple broken bones, hips, and lacerations to the head. At the hospital, he asked the doctors to keep his wedding ring and inquired about the condition of his loved ones. His wife, Amanda Ruschel, wrote on Instagram: "Thank God Alan is in hospital in a stable condition."

The second survivor is the Chapecoense goalkeeper. Danilo Padilla. It’s surprising that before the flight, Rushel posted a photo of himself on Instagram - just with Danilo. Third - Jackson Vollmann. Defender Neto was hospitalized with a severe head injury.

Another survivor already taken to the hospital is a flight attendant. Jimena Suarez.

Another 9 Chapecoense players, according to Globo Esporte, did not fly to the match and avoided a plane crash.

A plane carrying a Brazilian team crashed in Colombia. Main

Match TV summarizes all the information that is currently known.

Briefly

A plane carrying 77 people, including players from the Brazilian football club Chapecoense, crashed in Colombia. Four passengers canceled the flight at the last minute.

Six people survived.

Before the crash, the pilots reported electrical problems and “declared an emergency.”

Details

Yesterday at 21:56 local time in Colombia, in the La Seja area (about 30 kilometers southeast of the city of Medellin), an RJ-85 plane carrying players and coaching staff of the Chapecoense team disappeared from radar. There were 72 passengers and 8 crew members on board.

In addition to the players and coaches, there were club executives, three guests and 21 journalists on the plane.

The plane was heading to Medellin, where the team was supposed to play in the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana against the local Atlético Nacional.

Survivors

Rescuers found no traces of fire at the crash site. The absence of an explosion and ignition contributed to the fact that not everyone died in the disaster.

There was initially no clear information about the casualties. According to AFP, 25 people were immediately found. 5 survivors were reported.

According to journalist Pablo Medina Uribe, three players were taken to the hospital. These are defender Alan Ruschel (he will likely be paralyzed from the waist down) and goalkeepers Marcos Danilo and Jackson Folman (leg amputee).

Alan Ruschel

Marcos Danilo

90 rescuers worked at the scene of the disaster. Due to heavy rain, work was suspended until dawn.

Later, officially confirmed information appeared.

Among the dead is the son of former CSKA physical training coach Paulo Paixao Anderson.

Goalkeeper Danilo survived the crash, but died from his injuries in hospital. Before his death, he managed to meet his wife.

The names of all survivors have become known: players Elihu Neto, Jackson Folman, Alan Ruschel, journalist Rafael Hensel, flight attendant Jimena Suarez (the least injured of all, her condition is stable) and aircraft technician Erwin Tumeri.

What happened

At 22:00 (4 minutes after the plane disappeared from radar), the plane's crew "declared an emergency" and reported "electrical problems." This happened as the plane was descending and was preparing to land in Medellin. Then contact with the plane was lost. Rescuers flew to the site of the alleged crash, but heavy fog complicated the search for the crash site.

According to Flightradar, the plane occupied a holding pattern over a mountainous area before landing and circled twice, likely due to technical problems, at an altitude of 21,000 feet (6.4 kilometers). The RJ-85 then left the holding area and began to descend. The latest data was recorded by the Flightradar service when the plane was at an altitude of 15,550 feet (4.7 km).

On the night of November 29, a regional airliner carrying football players from the Brazilian club Chapecoense crashed in Colombia. Club employees and journalists were also on board. 76 people died, five more were taken to hospital by rescuers.

The plane crashed for an unknown reason before reaching 30 kilometers from Medellin airport in Colombia.

The airliner LMI2933 took off from the Bolivian Santa Cruz de la Sierra at 18:18 pm on November 28 local time (1:18 Moscow time). In five hours (6:00 Moscow time) the pilots reported dispatchers about problems on board related to power supply. The airport cleared the runway for an emergency landing, and the plane began flying in circles to run out of fuel, according to FlightRadar24 data.

Another 15 minutes later the plane crashed near the city of La Union. It broke into two pieces when it hit the ground. What exactly caused the disaster is unknown. Rescuers have not yet found the flight recorders; Search efforts have been suspended due to heavy rain. It is possible that the plane may have run out of fuel.

Almost the entire Chapecoense football team died in the disaster.

The Brazilian club was flying to Medellin for the final match of the Copa Sudamericana, in which Chapecoense was to meet the Colombian Atlético Nacional. There were 22 football players on the plane. In addition, there were 25 more club representatives on board (coaches, doctors, managers), as well as data Caracol Radio, three “friends of the club”. 22 journalists flew with Chapecoense to the match. According to the latest data, 76 people died.

Five people survived

Rescuers took four passengers and a flight attendant to the hospital. The condition of the two victims is assessed as stable, the surviving football player Alan Ruschel is conscious. In addition to Ruschel, goalkeepers Marcos Danilo and Jackson Folman survived the crash. Brazilian journalist Rafael Hensel also managed to escape. The only survivor of the crew was flight attendant Ximena Suarez.

The Civil Aviation Authority also reported that flight engineer Erwin Tumiri survived the crash. Local media learned that defender Elio Neto could also have survived the fall. Officially, the police reported that only five people survived, and another victim died on the way to the hospital.

The team should not have been on this flight

According to El Tiempo, shortly before departure, the Brazilian Civil Aviation Authority banned Chapecoense from chartering to Medellin, forcing the team to book a commercial flight.

Football clubs around the world expressed their condolences to the Brazilian team

One of the first about solidarity announced at Atlético Nacional, with whom Chapecoense was flying to a match. Words of condolences came from other clubs and players, including Russian. The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) has already announced that all games will be suspended for now.

Manchester United's thoughts are with Chapecoense and those affected by the tragedy in Colombia.

Updated:

Black boxes from crashed plane in Colombia found

The flight recorders of the plane that crashed on November 29, 30 kilometers from Medellin airport, have been found in Colombia. This was reported by the Colombian Civil Aviation Authority.

The black boxes are in good condition, the department said.

Plane that crashed in Colombia required landing due to lack of fuel

Before the disaster, the pilot of flight LMI2933 that crashed in Colombia, Miguel Quiroga, loudly demanded that air traffic controllers land due to lack of fuel. Sources of the newspaper El Tiempo told about this.

By the time of the fall, the plane was already making its third waiting circle near the airport, since landing priority was assigned to another flight from Bogota, which had previously reported problems with its instruments.

Surviving flight attendant Jimena Suarez also spoke about the fuel shortage. However, in the official preliminary report on the crash, Colombian authorities stated that the pilot reported to dispatchers only about problems with electronics.

Rescuers also finally established the number of victims of the disaster. There were only 68 passengers on board, not 72 as previously reported. Four people missed their flight. Of the 77 passengers and crew members, seven survived the disaster; one survivor subsequently died in hospital.

Sources say the pilot of the LaMia flight, Miguel Alejandro Quiroga Murakami, continuously raised his voice and asked to land due to lack of fuel, and then directed the plane towards the airport (Spanish).EL TIEMPO