An aircraft with 81 people aboard, including a Brazilian football team, crashed in central Colombia, the country's civil aviation association said on Tuesday. The Chapecoense football team was among the 72 passengers and 9 crew on board the charter aircraft, when it crashed around 10:15 pm (03:15 GMT) on Monday. The "BAe 146" plane was produced by a company that is now part of the UK's BAE Systems. The soccer team had been due to face Atletico Nacional of Medellin in the first leg of Wednesday’s Sudamericana final, South America’s equivalent of the Europa League. The plane crashed in a mountainous rural area outside the city of Medellin, where heavy rain at one point halted rescue operations.

Source: Egypt Independent November 29, 2016 09:01 UTC