The small Chapecoense team was traveling on a charter flight operated by airline LaMia Bolivia to the biggest game in its history, the final of the Copa Sudamericana. International flight regulations require aircraft to carry enough reserve fuel to fly for 30 minutes after reaching their destination. Only 0.5% of accidents on record were blamed on low fuel, according to the US-based Flight Safety Foundation. Only six on board the flight survived: three Chapecoense team members, a journalist and two Bolivian crew members. Two of the Bolivian flight crew, Ximena Suarez and Erwin Tumiri, were bruised but not in critical condition, while journalist Rafael Valmorbida was treated in intensive care for multiple rib fractures that partly collapsed a lung.

Source: The Guardian December 01, 2016 21:11 UTC