A chartered airplane carrying a Brazilian first division football team crashed outside Medellin while on its way to a regional tournament, killing 76 people, Colombian officials said Tuesday. The British Aerospace 146 short-haul airplane, operated by a charter airline named LaMia, declared an emergency and lost radar contact just before 10 p.m. local time Monday due to an electrical failure, according to aviation authorities. The aircraft, which had departed from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, was transporting the Chapecoense football team from southern Brazil for the first leg Wednesday of a two-game Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional of Medellin.
