Soccer Team Plane Crash

An honor guard played taps early as members of Colombia's military loaded five flight crew victims of an air crash that also killed most members of a soccer team onto a cargo plane for the trip back to their native Bolivia.

Air crash investigators in Colombia sought Wednesday to piece together the terrifying final moments aboard a charter jet that crashed while carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match in its history.

It was the culmination of an astonishing climb to the top of South America's soccer world - a modest club from Brazil heading to the finals of a continent-wide tournament. Then came a distress call from the cockpit of the plane carrying the team to Colombia.

A plane carrying 81 people, including members of a Brazilian club football team, crashed late Monday near the Colombian city of Medellin after reporting "electrical failures," officials said. 76 people are reportedly dead. Three of the soccer players are among five reported survivors.

Climbers in Chile's Andes say they have found the wreckage of a missing plane that disappeared more than half a century ago with a team of soccer stars on board.

An honor guard played taps early as members of Colombia's military loaded five flight crew victims of an air crash that also killed most members of a soccer team onto a cargo plane for the trip back to their native Bolivia.

Air crash investigators in Colombia sought Wednesday to piece together the terrifying final moments aboard a charter jet that crashed while carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match in its history.

It was the culmination of an astonishing climb to the top of South America's soccer world - a modest club from Brazil heading to the finals of a continent-wide tournament. Then came a distress call from the cockpit of the plane carrying the team to Colombia.

A plane carrying 81 people, including members of a Brazilian club football team, crashed late Monday near the Colombian city of Medellin after reporting "electrical failures," officials said. 76 people are reportedly dead. Three of the soccer players are among five reported survivors.

Climbers in Chile's Andes say they have found the wreckage of a missing plane that disappeared more than half a century ago with a team of soccer stars on board.