Brazil Soccer Team Plane Crash

• Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense to sign 20 new players after deadly plane crash

  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.

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  Jan 4, 2017
  
• Human error led to Colombia soccer plane crash: authorities

  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.

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  Dec 26, 2016
  
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• Seat switch may have saved Chapecoense player’s life in deadly plane crash

  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.

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  Dec 17, 2016
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• Bolivian airline official accuses bosses of coverup in Colombian plane crash

  A Bolivian aviation official who signed off on the flight plan for a chartered aircraft that crashed in the Andes is breaking her silence and accusing her bosses of trying to stage a coverup.

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  Dec 8, 2016
• Chapecoense fans pay final tribute to club president during burial as fans look to future

  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.

  Dec 4, 2016
• Brazil mourns soccer club crash victims in packed stadium

  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.

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  Dec 3, 2016
• Bodies of soccer team killed in Colombian plane crash returned to Brazil

  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

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  Dec 3, 2016
• Brazil soccer team’s plane ran out of fuel before deadly crash, recording reveals

  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.

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  Nov 30, 2016