Reuters cover of plane crash victims being boarded onto military plane for departure from Colombia

Record ID: 75173

  • Title: Reuters cover of plane crash victims being boarded onto military plane for departure from Colombia
  • Date: 3rd December 2016
  • Summary: RIO NEGRO, MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA (DECEMBER 2, 2016) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF CARAVAN OF HEARSES CARRYING VICTIMS LOCALS WAVING MORE OF CARS ON ROAD COLOMBIAN WOMAN, MARISA GONZALEZ, HOLDING SIGN THAT READS, "ALWAYS IN OUR HEARS; CHAPECO" (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) COLOMBIAN WOMAN, MARISA GONZALEZ, SAYING: "They are forever to be in our hearts. This is all very unfortunate for everyone. Forever." VIEW FROM CAR OF SPECTATORS PAST CARAVAN CARAVAN ENTERING AIR BASE VARIOUS OF COFFINS BEING ARRANGED ON TARMAC VARIOUS OF COFFINS BEING BOARDED ON PLANE, ALONGSIDE BRAZILIAN FLAG (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) COLOMBIAN AIR FORCE COMMANDER, CARLOS BUENOS VARGAS, SAYING: "It was three days of intense work, making use of the entire capacity of the risk system, the Colombian air force, national police. The air force had the mission to arrive at the site that's five minutes from the air force base here in Rio Negro, Antioquia, for rescue work, thinking first about the survivors, who today, thanks to god, recovered in sufficiently today." BRAZILIAN PLANE ON TARMAC
  • Embargoed: 18th December 2016 00:09
  • Keywords: Medellin repatriation Chapeco crash
  • Location: MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA
  • City: MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA
  • Country: Colombia
  • Reuters ID: LVA0015B71KCN
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Dozens of coffins carrying those killed when a plane flying Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team crashed into a Colombian mountain were transported to a Medellin airport to be repatriated for their journey home on Friday (December 02).
    The disaster on Monday (November 28) killed 71 people and shocked soccer fans the world over. The LAMIA Bolivia BAe146 airliner apparently ran out of fuel, lost electrical power and was preparing for an emergency landing when it crashed.
    Locals turned out to pay their final respects to the victims.
    "They are forever to be in our hearts. This is all very unfortunate for everyone. Forever," said Colombian local, Marisa Gonzalez.
    The convoy carried the coffins of 64 dead Brazilians with the remains of the victims scheduled to arrive early on Saturday (December 03) morning for funeral services in Chapeco, the club's small farming hometown in southern Brazil.
    Colombian Air Force Commander Carlos Buenos Vargas recounted efforts to retrieve the bodies from the crash site.
    "It was three days of intense work, making use of the entire capacity of the risk system, the Colombian air force, national police. The air force had the mission to arrive at the site that's five minutes from the air force base here in Rio Negro, Antioquia, for rescue work, thinking first about the survivors, who today, thanks to god, recovered in sufficiently today," he said.
    Some 100,000 fans of the soccer team, about half of Chapeco's population, are likely to attend, as is Gianni Infantino, president of world soccer governing body FIFA. Brazilian President Michel Temer will attend a ceremony at the airport after the coffins arrive, but he will not be at the wake in the stadium, his office said.
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