Hot News: Plane carrying Brazilian football team crashes with most dead

A chartered aircraft with 81 on board, including a Brazilian first division football team heading to Colombia for a regional tournament final, has crashed on its way to Medellin’s international airport.

Aviation authorities said there were reports of at least six survivors and at least 21 journalists were on the plane.Medellin’s mayor Federico Gutierrez said it was ‘a tragedy of huge proportions’ as he made his way to the site in a mountainous area outside the city where the chartered aircraft crashed shortly before midnight local time on Monday.

He said ambulances and rescuers were on their way.Offering a glimmer of hope, Kaleth Gutiérrez said: ‘We can’t say how many but there are lots of survivors.’

Foottball team badge that was found among the wreckageAviation authorities said the aircraft, a British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane operated by a Bolivian charter airline named Lamia, declared an emergency at 10pm on Monday (3am GMT) due to an electrical failure.Authorities and rescuers were immediately activated but an air force helicopter had to turn back due to low visibility.The aircraft, which made a stop in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, was was taking the Chapecoense football team from southern Brazil.Read