LaMia Airlines Flight 2933
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LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 was a flight operated by LaMia that crashed near the city of Medellín in Colombia. The airplane was carrying players from the Chapecoense football team. The airplane had an aircraft registration of CP-2933.[1] The airplane crashed on 28 November 2016, at around 22:00 local time. The crash killed 71 people.[2] Seven people originally survived the crash. However, one of the survivors, a goalkeeper known as Danilo, died a few hours after the plane crashed.[3] The three Chapecoense players that survived were Alan Ruschel,[4] Jakson Follmann,[5] and Neto.[6]
Accident | |
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Date | 28 November 2016 (2016-11-28) |
Summary | Crashed following fuel exhaustion |
Site | Mt. Cerro Gordo, near La Unión, Antioquia, Colombia 5°58′43″N 75°25′6″W |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Avro RJ85 |
Operator | LaMia |
ICAO flight No. | LMI2933 |
Registration | CP-2933 |
Flight origin | Viru Viru International Airport, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia |
Destination | José María Córdova International Airport, Rionegro, Colombia |
Occupants | 77 |
Passengers | 73 |
Crew | 4 |
Fatalities | 71 |
Injuries | 6 |
Survivors | 6 |
It crashed on November 28, 2016 at approximately 21:58 (UTC-5: 00). Among the passengers were players from the Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense, who were on their way to play the 2016 Copa Sudamericana final against Atlético Nacional. Six people survived the accident. The Colombian Civil Aeronautics Special Administrative Unit investigated the accident with the support of the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch.
The preliminary Colombian report indicated that the plane was traveling overweight and with fuel at the limit, and that the pilots mistakenly decided not to make stopovers to refuel at the Alfredo Vásquez Cobo de Leticia or El Dorado of Bogotá airports. In addition, they did not inform air control of the fuel shortage until the last moment. They did not comply with the flight plan, which should not have been approved by the airport authorities.
The final report of Aeronáutica Civil de Colombia, released on April 27, 2018, highlights that the LaMia company "did not comply with the minimum quantity of fuel requirements demanded in international standards, since it did not take into account the fuel required for fly to an alternate airport, the contingency airport, the reserve airport, or the minimum landing fuel"