LaMia Flight 2933

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LaMia Flight 2933 was a regularly scheduled charter flight from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, to Medellín, Colombia. On 28 November 2016, the aircraft operating the flight crashed into Mt. Cerro Gordo near the town of La Unión, Antioquia, Colombia, killing 71 of the 77 people on board. The aircraft was transporting the first-team squad of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense and their entourage to Medellín where the team was scheduled to play at the 2016 Copa Sudamericana Finals. One of the four crew members, three of the players, and two other passengers survived with injuries. The official report from Colombia's civil aviation agency, Aerocivil, concluded that the cause of the crash was a result of fuel exhaustion due to an inappropriate flight plan by the airline, and pilot error regarding poor decision-making as the situation worsened, including a failure to declare an emergency for 36 minutes after fuel levels became critically low, thus failing to inform air traffic control...

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