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Chapecoense joins list of tragic plane crashes involving sports teams

<p>At least 76 people were killed when a plane crashed in a mountainous part of Colombia late Monday night.</p><p>The plane was traveling from Bolivia to Medellin, Colombia, and a professional <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/plane-carrying-brazils-chapecoense-soccer-team-crashes-colombia-n689416" target="_blank">Brazilian soccer team</a> was on the flight.</p><p><b>SEE MORE: <a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/wing-flap-piece-confirmed-as-part-of-flight-mh370/">This Section Of Wing Flap Has Been Identified As Part Of Flight MH370</a></b></p><p>Investigators believe there was an <a href="http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/medellin/avion-que-transportaba-a-jugadores-del-chapecoense-se-accidento-en-antioquia/16761383" target="_blank">electrical failure</a>, but a flight attendant who survived suggested the plane might have run out of fuel.</p><p>Of the 81 passengers and crew on board, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/Aerocivil-Col-184913868210638/posts/" target="_blank">six people were pulled from</a> the crash alive. Five of them survived, including at least one of the soccer players, a flight attendant and a journalist.</p><p>Brazil's president <a href="http://www2.planalto.gov.br/acompanhe-planalto/noticias/2016/11/temer-decreta-luto-oficial-e-determina-ajuda-imediata-a-familias-de-brasileiros-em-acidente-aereo" target="_blank">has declared</a> three days of mourning to honor those on board. </p><hr><b>Trending stories at <a href="http://www.newsy.com">Newsy.com</a></b><ul class="inline-related-links"><li><a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/boy-borrows-parents-car-for-real-life-grand-theft-auto/">An 11-Year-Old 'Borrowed' Parents' Car To Play 'Grand Theft Auto' IRL</a></li><li><a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/black-lives-matter-defends-fidel-castro-in-opinion-piece/">Black Lives Matter Defends Fidel Castro In Opinion Piece</a></li><li><a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/new-zealand-takes-secret-santa-to-a-whole-new-level/">New Zealand Takes Secret Santa To A Whole New Level</a></li></ul>
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Members of Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense were among 81 people on board a chartered aircraft that crashed late Monday in Medellin, Colombia. It was not immediately clear how many players were among the casualties.

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A list of other sports teams involved in fatal plane crashes:

Nov. 8, 1948 — Czechoslovak national ice hockey team, five members including IIHF Hall of Famer, Ladislav Trojak, in the English Channel.

May 4, 1949 — Italian soccer club Torino. The four-time league champions lost 22 members, including 18 players, in Turin, Italy.

Jan. 7, 1950 — Moscow VVS ice hockey team, 11 players, near Sverdlovsk.

Feb. 6, 1958 — English soccer champion Manchester United, eight members, in Munich.

Aug. 14, 1958 — Egyptian fencing team, six members, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Oct. 10, 1960 — Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo football team, 16 members, in Toledo, Ohio.

Feb. 16, 1961 — U.S. figure skating team, 18 members and 10 coaches and officials, in Belgium.

April 3, 1961 — Green Cross, eight members of the first-division Chilean soccer team plus two members of the coaching staff, in the Las Lastimas Mountains.

April 28, 1968 — Lamar Tech track team, five members and the coach, in Beaumont, Texas.

Sept. 26, 1969 — Bolivian soccer team "The Strongest," coach Eustaquio Ortuno, 16 players and two staff members, near Viloco, Bolivia.

Oct. 2, 1970 — Wichita State football team, 14 players, in Colorado.

Nov. 14, 1970 — Marshall University football team, 36 players, in Huntington, West Virginia.

Oct. 13, 1972 — Uruguayan rugby club, among the 29 casualties, in the Andes, Chile.

Dec. 13, 1977 — University of Evansville men's basketball coach Bobby Watson and 14 players, in Evansville, Indiana

March 14, 1980 — U.S. amateur boxing team, 14 members, in Warsaw, Poland.

Nov. 25, 1985 — Iowa State women's cross country team, coach Ron Renko, assistant coach Pat Moynihan, and team members Julie Rose, Susan Baxter and Sheryl Maahs, in Des Moines, Iowa.

Dec. 8, 1987 — Peruvian first-division soccer team Alianza Lima, coach Marcos Calderon and 16 players, in Lima, Peru.

April 28, 1993 — Zambia's national soccer team, 18 players and five team officials, in Libreville, Gabon.

Jan. 27, 2001 — Oklahoma State basketball players Dan Lawson and Nate Fleming, and six team staffers and broadcasters, in Byers, Colorado.

Sept. 7, 2011 — Russian hockey team Lokomotiv, 27 players, two coaches and seven club officials, in Tunoshna, Russia.