Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Flight was taking Brazilian team to game of their lives (The Associated Press)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016, file photo, players of Brazil's Chapecoense celebrate at the end of a Copa Sudamericana semifinal soccer match against Argentina's San Lorenzo in Chapeco, Brazil. A chartered aircraft with 81 people on board, including the Brazilian first division Chapecoense soccer team heading to Colombia for a regional tournament final, has crashed on its way to Medellin's international airport. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File )

These were going to be the games of their lives for players on the humble Brazilian club Chapecoense. The dream ended late Monday night when a charter flight carrying the club sliced into a Colombian hillside, killing 75 and scattering six survivors among the snarled remains of wings and fuselage. The flight was bound for Medellin, Colombia, and a first-leg match against Colombia's Atletico Nacional, which was to be followed a week later by the second and decisive game in Brazil - the biggest the southern city of Chapeco and its 200,000 residents would ever see.


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