Staff Reporter Allen Balay: excerpted from CNN
Chapecoense, a Brazilian soccer team representing the city's 200,000 residents, would take the field in Medellin against Colombian club Atlético Nacional in the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final.
It's an unspeakably tragic conclusion to what most consider a fairy-tale run in one of South America's most prestigious soccer tournaments.
The lack of apparent fire damage among the wreckage means investigators may consider fuel starvation as one of the contributing factors to Monday's crash, a person familiar with the early inquiry said. But fuel starvation on a commercial flight is very rare, one expert told CNN.
It was initially reported that 81 people were on board and 75 died, but those numbers were later revised as some passengers on the manifest missed the flight.
The plane took off from Bolivia's Viru Viru airport at 6:18 p.m. local time Monday, an air traffic controller told CNN.
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