Brazilian plane crash

[robfosters]

Damn, this is like the Munich air disaster again. Looks like the entire Chapocoense football team from Brazil has been wiped out in a plane crash on their way to a big game

Only six survivors from the crash so far, which crashed on approach.

Lots of journalists on board as well. Horrific stuff. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-38140981

 

[Sargatanas2511]

It only took one post for this to turn weird .

Shame to the players and everyone else on board and hopefully any survivors will be found quickly.

 

[shifty_uk]

The **** is the matter with you?

He was joking. Bad taste but joking nevertheless.

 

[StriderX]

The **** is the matter with you?

What?

Its a legit complaint of the situation, regardless yes i find it a bit sad that a team that only just made it to the top of their league and may have moved to the top game is now unable to do so. Though apparently two of them might be alive.

 

[Uther]

Why is it big news because a football team was on board? 80 people on that flight...

 

[Avenged7Fold]

The same reason media portray any headline, to gather the most attention possible from it.

80 people would have been a tragic life devastating shock to the thousands who knew them. The football team however would have been followed by millions of fans of the team or football as a sport and though not as horrific for them, still tragic. I can imagine which will sell more papers.


Tragic but true.

 

[Sargatanas2511]

A team is 23 players, plus other people flying with them I would estimate close to half of the plane was part of the club in one form or another.

That's why they've been pushed to the forefront.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

76 confirmed dead according to BBC news. 5 survived.

 

[doodah]

How any one survived that is remarkable!

 

[StriderX]

Why is it big news because a football team was on board? 80 people on that flight...

Does the average person remember the downed Russian airliner over Egypt or the one over Ukraine?

I bet a lot of people remember the flight Man U got downed on, just because it was a football team.

 

[Cosimo]

Hope the survivors pull through and RIP.

 

[Hotwired]

Wow, that tasteless joke.

Link doesn't even say a squeak about how the govt reacted.

 

[jsmoke]

How any one survived that is remarkable!

Totally, just seen Nigel Farages plane wreck also, same applies. RIP all.

 

[Josh]

How any one survived that is remarkable!

This.

 

[robfosters]

Brazilian clubs have already offered to loan the team players for free.

Bit soon for all that ain't it?

 

[Craig1981]

Terrible loss of human life. RIP

The first thing that came to my mind was the movie Beetlejuice though, weirdly enough. Didn't it also feature an entire team that died in a plane crash?

 

[pioneer2000]

Does sound pretty suspicious at first glance.

 

[el_dazza]

Atletico Nacional have offered Chapocoense the title of champions, a very humble gesture indeed.

 

[Craig1981]

Looks like at least two of the five survivors are football players. Defender Alan Ruschel and reserve goalkeeper Jackson Follman. The sixth survivor who later died in hospiral was the main goalkeeper, Marcos Padilha. No mention who the other 3 survivors are though.

 

[this_is_gav]

Terribly, terribly sad. I guess, at least for me, it seems more real when you consider it's a top-tier football team that has lost their entire first team in one tragic moment, and I suppose that's why much of the media has led with the football team headline. I know there were others on board and their families will probably not care at this point that it was a football team also on board, but it just seems more human when you think it could have been any team anywhere.

This football team was due to play the finals in a tourney, then they 'conveniently' got wiped out before said match. Let's see what the black box says, but I would be treating this as suspicious.

RIP to the dead

That's a bit over the top for a football match!

Frankly it depresses me that someone feels the need to post such a thing, at least at this early stage.