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[Cruyff14]

****ing hell. That is terrible.

A whole team virtually wiped out.

 

[chef]

What a tragedy

 

[Zidane98]

RIP. There are no words.

 

[Zidane98]

Reports that the flight simply ran out of fuel. Apparently the distance from Bolivia to Colombia exceeded the range of the aircraft involved (RJ-85). If true that's an absolutely mind boggling error to dispatch the aircraft.

 

[glenferry23]

Geez. That is horrible news.

 

[Zidane98]

Jesus. The same airline with the same aircraft flew the Argentinan NT to Brazil for the recent WC qualifier.

 

[EmreTheVolante]

RIP

 

[Magma]

sounds like one of the 3 found alive, danilo, was the one who died on the way to the hospital. now apparently neto has been found alive.

 

[Latro]

Shot of the players who did not travel.

 

[go you pups]

Does it deserve its own memorium thread?

Horrible horrible news

Nothing on this scale I remember reading about occurring since the Man United and Grande Torino teams were wiped out

No one should jump on a plane going to do your job and not come back home

RIP souls

 

[Magma]

the fuel thing i think was the pilot dumped the fuel before it went down to prevent a fireball/explosion.

 

[EmreTheVolante]

the fuel thing i think was the pilot dumped the fuel before it went down to prevent a fireball/explosion.

Far out that's mental Pilot was in an impossible situation by the sounds of it.

 

[Zidane98]

the fuel thing i think was the pilot dumped the fuel before it went down to prevent a fireball/explosion.

The aircraft in question (RJ-85 / BAE 146) cannot dump fuel. The electrical failure would have been caused by both engines quitting. One of the reports I read said that rescuers couldn't find aviation fuel at the crash site.

It appears that the aircraft used did not have the range to complete the flight safely. Utter madness, this is a company that was providing transport to the Argentinian NT.

 

[Magma]

it could've been gas, not fuel then. something was released to prevent it from becoming a fireball.

 

[Zidane98]

it could've been gas, not fuel then. something was released to prevent it from becoming a fireball.

I would ignore reports / claims of fuel being dumped. It physically is not possible on this aircraft (BAE-146).

This site explains the predicament pretty well:

http://www.jacdec.de/2016/11/29/2016-11-28-lamia-avro-rj-85-crashed-near-medellin-with-81-on-board/

As you can see the aircraft could not complete the flight safely fully loaded as it was. Likely that any electrical "failure" was caused by fuel running out and engines shutting down.

 

[Cooldude]

FFS, just ****ed up, plane crashes must be one of the worst ways to go. RIP

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

Shouldn't happen in this day and age, what a tragedy!!!

R.I.P

 

[Magma]

atletico nacional have asked for chape to be awarded the sudamericana

 

[Zidane98]

Hopefully the football world gets behind the families of the victims and supports them. Football world needs to support the club too. Words can't begin to describe how sad this is.

 

[Wosh]

What a monumental tragedy, hard to comprehend how hard this is going to hit the families, teammates and officials that survived or wern't on that plane. All the instagram photos of the team on the plane are gut wrenching.

Rest in Peace

 

[100volt1]

Apparently one of their Goalkeepers who was initially reported as "survived" ended up passing away later on.

 

[kane249]

Does it deserve its own memorium thread?

Horrible horrible news

Nothing on this scale I remember reading about occurring since the Man United and Grande Torino teams were wiped out

No one should jump on a plane going to do your job and not come back home

RIP souls

Given the magnitude of the situation I think it does
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/chapecoense-plane-crash-tragedy.1153420/

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Fair month of goals

 

[Bojan KantKick]

Did lol

 

[Bojan KantKick]