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Plane With Brazilian Soccer Team Crashes in Colombia
New York Times ^
| NOV. 29, 2016
Posted on 11/28/2016 9:58:36 PM PST by rdl6989
BOGOTA, Colombia — An airplane with 72 people on board, including players from a Brazilian soccer team heading to Colombia for a regional tournament final, has crashed on its way to Medellin's international airport.
Medellin's Mayor Federico Gutierrez said that it is possible there are survivors.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: associationfootball; brazil; brazilian; brazilsoccerteam; chapecoense; colombia; crash; futbol; medellin; plane; planecrash; soccer; southamerica
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posted on
11/28/2016 9:58:36 PM PST
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
Good luck to passengers, crew, families, friends, and rescuers.
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posted on
11/28/2016 10:04:15 PM PST
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: Blue Jays
Doesn’t look good. Early reports are only 6 survivors. Looks like it flew into a mountain. RIP.
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posted on
11/28/2016 10:35:11 PM PST
by
lodi90
(President Trump - Has a nice ring to it!)
To: rdl6989
To: rdl6989
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posted on
11/28/2016 10:46:33 PM PST
by
BlessedBeGod
(To restore all things in Christ. ~~~~ Appeasing evil is cowardice.)
To: rdl6989
Reminds me of the soccer team whose plan crashed high in the Andes back in the early 70’s. There were survivors in that one too.
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posted on
11/28/2016 10:49:41 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase
It was a Uruguayan Rugby team. The subject of the Book and subsequent movie, “Alive.”
Which was precisely the first thing that came to my mind.
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posted on
11/28/2016 10:51:42 PM PST
by
dfwgator
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To: proudpapa
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posted on
11/28/2016 10:54:05 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
"Alive" is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read.
It's amazing that *anyone* ended up surviving.
They were on the mountain so long that rescue planes simply gave up searching.
The survivors finally realized that nobody would EVER come, and made one last ditch effort to hike to freedom.
You read this heart-wrenching story of three volunteers struggling to get to the top of their mountain, and look all around and realizing that their mountain was but ONE mountain in a sea of hundreds of other mountains.
A real page turner!
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posted on
11/28/2016 11:00:20 PM PST
by
boop
("We don't feel like we are doing anything illegal"- Democrat credo)
To: Rebelbase; dfwgator
To: boop; Rebelbase; dfwgator
Have seen the movie yet have not yet read the Alive book.
Hopefully there was *some* sort of good luck for a handful of passengers and crew. :-(
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posted on
11/28/2016 11:11:24 PM PST
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: PraiseTheLord; All
In the last hour this site has a lot of recent tweets — in Spanish. There is a printed report. Talking of survivors.
https://twitter.com/abnheel
To: rdl6989
Very sad. Tragic.
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posted on
11/28/2016 11:55:35 PM PST
by
onyx
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To: rdl6989
Bogota is a very challenging airport with mountains around and high elevation.
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posted on
11/29/2016 12:24:24 AM PST
by
aviator
(Armored Pest Control)
To: rdl6989
Valery: A plane with Brazilian soccer players crashed in Columbia.
Barack: OMG! That’s terrible. How many millions in a Brazilian?
To: rdl6989
Prayers being sent. How awful.
To: dfwgator
That was in one of those Fairchild puddle jumpers. Pilot made a navigation error.
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posted on
11/29/2016 4:15:15 AM PST
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them.)
To: virgil
The news has been reporting that the pilot radioed that the aircraft was experiencing electrical problems.
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posted on
11/29/2016 4:26:00 AM PST
by
octex
To: proudpapa
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posted on
11/29/2016 4:43:34 AM PST
by
Tucker39
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