Summary:
Rescuers combed the wreckage for survivors in the mountains near Medellin, Colombia looking for passengers aboard the Auro RJ85 enroute Monday night from Santa Cruz, Bolivia to Medellin when it crashed near Rionegro, Colombia with 72 passengers and nine crew members onboard. This information was reported by the civil aviation officials.
Outside a stadium in Brazil, fans who thought they would be cheering for their favorite soccer team came to mourn, as the soccer team was aboard the flight. At least 75 people were killed, according to the Colombian authorities, officials have offered different tallies of the number injured.
Players, coaches and invited guests from Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team were onboard the charter flight. So were more than 20 journalists on the way to cover what was supposed to be a heartwarming chapter in a Cinderalla story for a team of unlikely champions.
Colombia's civil aviation agency said six people had survived the crash, while the Brazil Sport Minister told CNN that five people had survived.
Now authorities are investigating what caused the crash, searching the remote site for victims, survivors and evidence.
Analysis:
This is very sad current event to have to report. This article was written by Catherin E. Shoichet, Joshua Berlinger, Marilia Brocchetto and Fernando Ramos. I have never read any article prior to completing this blog by either of the writers.
This article was written with no bias, but more of concern that entire soccer, journalists, friends and crew lost their life.
This is a very sad current event to cover. My prayers go out to all of the families and friends of those who lost their lives or are injured.
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/29/americas/colombia-plane-accident/
Is tragic to know that almost everyone in the plane died, now the only remain question is figured out what was the reason of the crash.
ReplyDeleteIt's so sad that all of those people died, and the fact that they were a soccer team makes them in some way more noticeable. But they are just people and it's sad. I can imagine what the survivors are going through.
ReplyDeleteThis is truly a terrible event. I'm deeply curious as to why it went down, but I'm also confused as to why the Brazil Sport Minister said there were five survivors instead of the six.
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It's a devastating loss for so many, and I hope they figure out what caused this. I also think it's weird how two people had different reports on the number of survivors.
ReplyDeleteSuch a hard loss for son many people. I hope they can find a resolution and come to a final conclusion on the report.
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