Last night 50000 fans showed up at Atletico Nacional's stadium for a memorial
The song they are singing "Send the Cup to Heaven"
edit: also, Fox Sports Brasil, which was scheduled to show Chapecoense's final against Atletico Nacional on Wednesday evening, instead aired 90 minutes of a silent black screen in memory of those who lost their lives.
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Ronaldinho and Riquelme have offered to come out of retirement to play for Chapecoense for free for the next 6 months. Also, every Brazilian team has offered to loan three of its players without any fee as well, and they would keep paying their wages as well.
PSG has been rumoured to have offered Chapecoense €40M.
Football is the least important thing here but it is nice to see solidarity from everyone. It restores my faith in humanity.
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those pictures make it look like the plane really slammed into the ground - although there does not seem to have been an explosion or fire.
would lack of fire/explosion possibly suggest the plane ran out of fuel?
Amazing this can happen in aviation today, Usually the flight dispatcher recommends the fuel amount and the pilot either agrees or adds a little more reserve.*norm is 30-40 minutes extra* but even if both parties screwed up the pilot should have realized at a midway way-point he wouldn't have enough and land at an alternate airport.
I would be shocked if this doesn't come back as pilot error.
The plane which crashed in Colombia, wiping out a Brazilian football team, was late taking off because crew had to search for one of the players' lost video games, it was revealed today. The delayed departure meant a planned refuelling stop in Cobija, on the border between Brazil and Bolivia, was abandoned because the airport did not operate after midnight.
According to O Globo, a Brazilian news outlet, the first leg of the journey from São Paulo to Santa Cruz de la Sierra was delayed by around one hour. That meant that the refuelling stop in Cobija was not possible, as the airport there shuts down at night. So, the pilot opted to fly directly from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Medellín.
That decision has become the subject of tremendous scrutiny. The range of the plane model, a British AVRO RJ-85 jet, is 2,965km with a full tank of fuel, according to JACDEC, an air-safety website. That is less than the distance between the two airports.
Probably already mentioned, but I read that the pilot technically had enough full to make it (just barely). He realized part way through the flight that it was getting close but was likely worried about causing a delay (soccer in South America is serious business), so he pushed ahead assuming it would be a normal flight. Then when he got to the airport, another plane was having issues and was given priority landing which put this plane 4th in the queue to land. The fuel ran out.
A really unfortunate, but also preventable situation.
I also read that one of the players had just opened a letter from his wife saying that he was going to be a father....
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