Chapecoense 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.

  Sports

  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.

  World

  Dec 26, 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.

  World

  Dec 8, 2016
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• Toronto neurosurgeon charged in murder of wife makes court appearance

  Mohammed Shamji, 40, made a brief court appearance Saturday morning at Old City Hall

  Crime

  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

  Sports

  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.

  World

  Nov 30, 2016
• Timeline: Air disasters involving international soccer teams

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

  Sports

  Nov 29, 2016
• Chapecoense soccer team in Colombian plane crash hailed as Brazil ‘Cinderella story’

  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.

  Sports

  Nov 29, 2016