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The president of Brazilian football team Chapecoense was buried Sunday as fans paid their final tributes, trying to put behind them the worst moment in the club's history.

Nineteen senior members of the Chapecoense soccer team from Brazil died in the crash.

A woman on a flight to Houston gave passengers quite a scare after she opened the emergency exit and jumped from the plane after it landed Monday.

The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel before crashing into the Andes, according to a leaked recording of the final minutes of the doomed flight.

Brazil's president on Saturday bestowed honors on the victims of an air crash as Air Force troops unloaded 50 coffins flown in overnight from Colombia

The following are other air disasters which have involved soccer teams.

Brazilian soccer fans are devastated after learning members of the first division Chapecoense soccer team were on board a Colombian charter plane than crashed late Monday.

Errors by the pilot, airline and Bolivian regulators are to blame for a plane crash in Colombia that killed 71 people last month, including most of Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team, Colombia aviation authorities said.

At least 17 people died and scores were injured in a stampede at an Angolan soccer match on Friday when hundreds of supporters stormed the stadium gates, a medical official said.

A Brazilian footballer who survived the air crash that killed most of his team in Colombia last month changed seats at the last minute after a teammate encouraged him to sit beside him.

Chapecoense, the Brazilian soccer team devastated by an airline crash, will sign up to 20 players for the new season and are reserving shirt numbers for two of the survivors in the hope they can play again.

20,000 people filled a tiny stadium under umbrellas and plastic ponchos to say goodbye to members of the Chapecoense soccer club who died in a plane crash.

A chartered plane with a Brazilian first division soccer team crashed near Medellin while on its way to the finals of a regional tournament, killing 76 people, Colombian officials said Tuesday.