{"id":16856,"date":"2018-11-28T00:47:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T00:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alexkaut.com\/?p=16856"},"modified":"2022-11-25T01:32:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T01:32:17","slug":"2016-11-28-medellin-colombia-out-of-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexkaut.com\/2016-11-28-medellin-colombia-out-of-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"2016-11-28 Medellin, Colombia \/ Out of Fuel \/ Ohne Benzin \/ Sem Combust\u00edvel \/ Sin Combustible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Machado turns on his smartphone camera and hits record. He is jovial, and so he should be. He is doing what he loves and it is written all over the broad smile he wears.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It\u2019s beginning, it\u2019s beginning. The trip to Colombia,&#8217; he repeats over and over as his teammates signal towards the camera. &#8216;That\u2019s it guys. Let\u2019s get the trip started.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A team official passes by his chair and he tells him: &#8216;Say hello to all.&#8217; Then he records the last four words anyone will ever hear him speak<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">OK guys, let\u2019s fly!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>On the evening of 28 November 2016, LaMia Flight 2933, carrying 77 people crashed as it approached Medell\u00edn, Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>Among the passengers were 22 players of the Brazilian Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Chapecoense de Futebol club, 23 staff, 21 journalists and 2 guests.<\/p>\n<p>The team was travelling to play their away leg of the Final for the 2016 Copa Sudamericana in Medell\u00edn against Atl\u00e9tico Nacional.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"As\u00ed qued\u00f3 registrada la entrada del Chapecoense al aeropuerto de Barranquilla\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I5P-l-TkYEQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>71 people died (including 21 journalists and almost the entire first team and managerial staff). One of the four crew members, three of the players, and two other passengers survived.<\/p>\n<p>The surviving players were left-back Alan Ruschel,<sup id=\"cite_ref-18\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0backup goalkeeper\u00a0Jakson Follmann<sup id=\"cite_ref-dpernambuco_19-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0(who had one of his legs amputated),<sup id=\"cite_ref-20\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> and center-back\u00a0Neto.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper\u00a0Danilo\u00a0initially survived the crash, but later died before arriving to the hospital. Goalkeeper Nivaldo, who did not board the flight, soon after announced his immediate retirement from football.<\/p>\n<p>The causes of the crash were\u00a0fuel exhaustion\u00a0due to poor flight planning, failure to\u00a0declare an emergency\u00a0after fuel levels became critically low,<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0and\u00a0air traffic control\u00a0at Medell\u00edn giving other aircraft priority to land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Machado turns on his smartphone camera and hits record. He is jovial, and so he should be. He is doing what he loves and it is written all over the broad smile he wears. &#8216;It\u2019s beginning, it\u2019s beginning. The trip to Colombia,&#8217; he repeats over and over as his teammates signal towards the camera.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alexkaut.com\/2016-11-28-medellin-colombia-out-of-fuel\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[35,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexkaut.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexkaut.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexkaut.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexkaut.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexkaut.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16856"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/alexkaut.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35634,"href":"https:\/\/alexkaut.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16856\/revisions\/35634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexkaut.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexkaut.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexkaut.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}