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LaMia Flight 2933
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commercial airline flight
Key facts
- Date
- 28 November 2016 ( 2016-11-28 )
- Summary
- Crashed following fuel exhaustion
- Aircraft type
- Avro RJ85
- Operator
- LaMia
- Icao flight no
- LMI2933
- Call sign
- LAMIA 2933
- Registration
- CP-2933
- Flight origin
- Viru Viru International Airport , Santa Cruz de la Sierra , Bolivia
- Destination
- José María Córdova International Airport , Rionegro , Colombia
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- aviation accident
- Country
- Colombia
- Operator
- LaMia
- Location
- Colombia
- Sport
- association football
- Image
- Rescate de Policía al vuelo 2933 - 01.jpg
- Number of deaths
- 71
- Number of injured
- 6
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- topic's main category
- Category:LaMia Flight 2933
- has immediate cause
- fuel starvation
- destination point
- José María Córdova International Airport
- start point
- Bolivia
- point in time
- 2016-11-28
- item operated
- British Aerospace BAe 146 / Avro RJ
- number of survivors
- 6
- Commons category
- LaMia Airlines Flight 2933
- flight number
- LMI 2933
- aircraft registration
- CP-2933
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Encyclopedic overview
LaMia Flight 2933 was a charter flight of an Avro RJ85, operated by LaMia, that on 28 November 2016 crashed near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 of the 77 people on board. The aircraft was transporting the first-team squad of Brazilian football club Chapecoense and their entourage from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, to Medellín, where the team was scheduled to play at the 2016 Copa Sudamericana Finals. One of the four crew members, three of the players, and two other passengers survived with injuries.
The official report from Colombia's civil aviation agency, Aerocivil, found the causes of the crash to be fuel exhaustion due to an inappropriate flight plan by the airline, and pilot error regarding poor decision-making as the situation worsened, including a failure to declare an emergency for 36 minutes after fuel levels became critically low, thus failing to inform air traffic control at Medellín – until just seconds before its fuel-starved engines flamed out, and 18 kilometres (9.7 nmi; 11 mi) from the airport – that an immediate landing was required.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “LaMia Flight 2933” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.