Plane carrying Brazilian football players crashes in Colombia

A charter plane carrying a Brazilian football team crashed in the mountains in Colombia late on Nov. 28, killing 76 people, officials said. They said five survived the disaster.

The LAMIA airlines charter declared an emergency at around 10 pm local time" 0300 GMT on Nov. 29, reporting it had suffered "electrical failures," and crashed a short time later near the city of Medellin, officials said.
 
The plane was carrying members of Chapecoense Real, a Brazilian football club which was to have played in the Copa Sudamericana finals on Wednesday against Atletico Nacional of Colombia.
 
In all, there were 72 passengers and nine crew on board.
 
"We were able to rescue six people alive but one of them died on the way to the hospital," Jose Gerardo Acevedo, a police commander, told reporters.
 
One of the survivors was Alan Ruschel, a 27-year-old defender for the Brazilian team, the head of Colombia's civil aeronautics agency, Alfredo Bocanegra, told reporters.
 
Radio Caracol said two other players -- Marcos Danilo Padilla and Jackson Follmann -- also survived and were taken to area hospitals, along with a flight attendant and a journalist.
         
The LAMIA airlines flight originated in Sao Paulo, Brazil and had made a stop in Santa Cruz, Bolivia before continuing on to Rionegro, a city near Medellin.
 
The airport statement said the plane reported an emergency at 10 pm local time (0300 GMT). "It declared it had electrical failures."  

It went down about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Medellin, Colombia's second largest city, in an area called Cerro Gordo.
 
Elkin Ospina, the mayor of the town of La Ceja near the crash site, said the mountainous terrain was some 3,300...