Travel Plane Crash In Colombia

[rdhopkins2]

A plane has gone down shortly before arrival in Columbia. Some survivors have been reported but the wreckage location has been hard to access by emergency services. The plane was carrying a professional football team as well as others on a flight from Bolivia.

Horrible news. Just what went wrong?

Electrical problems reported when the aircraft declared Mayday.

No fire signs on the wreckage. Speculation the aircraft may have run out of fuel.

 

[kaiserchief13]

Team from Brazil heading to Medellin for Copa America game. Big news normally but this adds to it. Why was the team travelling from La Paz though ?

 

[little graham]

22 football journalist on board. Radar footage of plane circling airport is eeree.

English made aircraft, so western media will blame something else than plane malfunction.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Reports of electrical failure on plane that sent it down.

Six survivors apparently.

Also the same plane transported the Argentina national team for their international a few weeks back. Already a big story, if Messi, Aguero etc were on board...

 

[Gough]

Happened to the Zambian national team in 1993.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Zambia_national_football_team_air_disaster

 

[rdhopkins2]

Thankfully the wreckage was found quickly preventing another "Alive" situation in the Andes.

Naturally, it is a tragedy that people have perished though.

 

[Plugger35]

Happened to the Zambian national team in 1993.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Zambia_national_football_team_air_disaster

And Manchester United in 1958.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_air_disaster

 

[Gigantic]

Tragic news. Thoughts are with all those affected.

 

[Richo is God]

Reports of electrical failure on plane that sent it down.

Six survivors apparently.

Also the same plane transported the Argentina national team for their international a few weeks back. Already a big story, if Messi, Aguero etc were on board...

My god it could've been them! Or the millions of other people who travel by airplane each day

 

[Sinjin Smith]

My god it could've been them! Or the millions of other people who travel by airplane each day

That's not really what Bunk Moreland was getting at. Maybe read his post again.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Aviation board

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I don't get affected by these things generally... but this was pretty hard to watch


I guess if nothing else... apart from what may have been a horrible last few mins of course... they went out together, happy and full of hope. None of them died alone.

 

[kaiserchief13]

Pictures online of players who didn't travel sitting in change room devistated

 

[Silent Alarm]

All these people talking about sporting plane crashes...

 

[Allikat]

All these people talking about sporting plane crashes...

They're more likely to get into a fatal buscrash on the way to the game.

 

[Smeg Head]

They're more likely to get into a fatal buscrash on the way to the game.

Plane travel is for the most part the safest form of travel, but it is the only one where you have no control of the situation essentially.

 

[kaiserchief13]

Plane travel is for the most part the safest form of travel, but it is the only one where you have no control of the situation essentially.

Train?

 

[rippersnipper]

People are saying electrical failure and/or fuel loss. I don't usually like to speculate with these things but someone/something has seriously ****** up for either/both of those to have been the cause of an accident (in general something has to go really wrong but these are two of the most controllable/defensible systems on the a/c). Sounds a tad like the avianca crash on approach to jfk (not including the weather which was a major factor in that one).

 

[Plugger35]

People are saying electrical failure and/or fuel loss. I don't usually like to speculate with these things but someone/something has seriously ****** up for either/both of those to have been the cause of an accident (in general something has to go really wrong but these are two of the most controllable/defensible systems on the a/c). Sounds a tad like the avianca crash on approach to jfk (not including the weather which was a major factor in that one).

We'll just have to wait for the Air Crash Investigations episode to be made about it so we can find out what caused the crash.

 

[rippersnipper]

We'll just have to wait for the Air Crash Investigations episode to be made about it so we can find out what caused the crash.

That will be incredibly emotional

 

[100volt1]

Apparently their Goalkeeper on board, who was initially reported as "survived" has died.

 

[little graham]

Plane travel is for the most part the safest form of travel, but it is the only one where you have no control of the situation essentially.

How many people died from astral travel?

 

[little graham]

Apparently their Goalkeeper on board, who was initially reported as "survived" has died.

1 defender, 1 goalkeeper, 1 physiotherapist, 1 journalist and 1 of the 9 flight crew so far still kicking.

 

[100volt1]

1 defender, 1 goalkeeper, 1 physiotherapist, 1 journalist and 1 of the 9 flight crew so far still kicking.

That was the Goalkeeper that was stated alive

 

[100volt1]

Marcos Danilo Padilha was his name