https://www.scmp.com/rss/323661/feed The Chapecoense air disaster occurred when chartered LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 crashed on 28 November 2016 while transporting the Brazilian Chapecoense soccer team from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, to José María Córdova International Airport in Medellín, Colombia. The airliner, an Avro RJ85, was carrying a total of 77 people: 68 passengers, which included the soccer team, club officials, 21 journalists, and a crew of nine. The team was en route to play the 2016 Copa Sudamericana Finals... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Brazilian football team Chapecoense said Thursday they will play in a friendly match on January 21, their first fixture since the squad was wiped out in a plane crash. Rebuilding the team after the tragedy which cut short their fairytale rise, the side will host Brazilian league opponents Palmeiras for the friendly. Nineteen Chapecoense players and 24 other club members died when the plane crashed in the Colombian mountains as they flew to compete in the finals of the Copa Sudamericana regional... https://www.scmp.com/sport/soccer/article/2059906/chapecoense-ready-return-action-january-21-friendly-they-rebuild-after?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/soccer/article/2059906/chapecoense-ready-return-action-january-21-friendly-they-rebuild-after?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 06 Jan 2017 05:07:55 +0000 Brazil have invited Colombia to play a friendly match next month with proceeds from the game going to families of the Chapecoense players and staff killed in the Medellin air crash, a Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) spokesman said on Monday. Last week’s disaster, which killed 71 passengers and crew, shocked soccer fans the world over and plunged Brazil into mourning. The small side from southern Brazil were heading to Colombia to play local team Atletico Nacional in the final of the Copa... https://www.scmp.com/sport/soccer/article/2052108/brazil-invite-colombia-play-charity-match-support-victims-chapecoense?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/soccer/article/2052108/brazil-invite-colombia-play-charity-match-support-victims-chapecoense?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Dec 2016 02:50:55 +0000 The aftermath of a fatal tragedy sees shock and grief followed by anger. Then blame, and then an investigation – the findings of which, we hope, achieve three things: truth, justice and prevention of something similar ever happening again. The plane crash in Colombia that wiped out almost all of the Chapecoense football team defies words. The numbing, confusing sentiment is felt not just by their supporters in their small, tight-knit and hitherto largely unknown community in southern Brazil, but... https://www.scmp.com/sport/soccer/article/2051137/world-sport-could-do-without-curse-lady-luck-chapecoense-tragedy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/soccer/article/2051137/world-sport-could-do-without-curse-lady-luck-chapecoense-tragedy?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 02 Dec 2016 06:40:37 +0000 The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel and desperately pleaded for permission to land before crashing into the Andes, according to a leaked recording of the final minutes of the doomed flight. In the sometimes chaotic exchange with the air traffic tower, the pilot of the British-built jet could be heard repeatedly requesting authorization to land because of “fuel problems.” A female controller explained another plane... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/2050681/audio-suggests-doomed-plane-ran-out-fuel-crashing-colombian?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/2050681/audio-suggests-doomed-plane-ran-out-fuel-crashing-colombian?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Two Brazilian footballers in Hong Kong have paid tribute to friends who lost their lives in the Chapecoense team’s air crash. Hong Kong Pegasus midfielder Joao Emir mourned a “friend and brother” Josimar who was among the 71 victims and from the same town, Pelotas, in Rio Grande de Sul. And former Pegasus and South China coach Ricardo Rambo, who is also from the same state, was in shock at the death of the team’s coach and many others who were friends of friends. “The world of football woke up... https://www.scmp.com/sport/soccer/article/2050389/hong-kong-pegasus-footballer-joao-emir-loses-friend-and-brother?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/soccer/article/2050389/hong-kong-pegasus-footballer-joao-emir-loses-friend-and-brother?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Nov 2016 04:30:30 +0000 Thousands of grieving fans in green and white filled the Chapecoense stadium in remote southern Brazil on Tuesday, singing their team’s praises and chanting one by one the names of players who lost their lives in a plane crash a day earlier. “We are champions!” they cried as club staff and relatives of the deceased joined hands in a circle at midfield, part of an impromptu ceremony that swung between mourning for the lives lost and pride in the unlikely feats of their fallen heroes. Less than a... https://www.scmp.com/sport/soccer/article/2050369/brazilian-town-grieves-loss-cinderella-soccer-team-chapecoense?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/soccer/article/2050369/brazilian-town-grieves-loss-cinderella-soccer-team-chapecoense?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Nov 2016 03:30:30 +0000 Fans of Chapecoense, the Brazilian football club enjoying a fairy tale season until being almost wiped out in a plane crash, wept outside the stadium on Tuesday. All year, the once struggling, impoverished club had delighted the people of Chapeco, a city of about 200,000 in Santa Catarina state. Now, only grief remains. Under fierce sunshine in the southern Brazilian state, fans in the team shirt congregated at the stadium where just last week their heroes had notched up another unlikely... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/2050328/dream-turns-nightmare-families-and-fans-brazilian-footballers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/2050328/dream-turns-nightmare-families-and-fans-brazilian-footballers?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:15:45 +0000 A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian first division soccer team crashed outside Medellin while on its way to the finals of a regional tournament, killing 76 people, Colombian officials said on Tuesday. Six people initially survived, but one of them later died in a hospital. The British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane, operated by a charter airline named LaMia, declared an emergency and lost radar contact just before 10pm on Monday (3am GMT) because of an electrical failure, aviation authorities... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/2050077/colombia-authorities-are-responding-plane-crash-carrying?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/2050077/colombia-authorities-are-responding-plane-crash-carrying?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 29 Nov 2016 06:00:00 +0000