The plane crash took away 71 lives including 19 members of the Chapecoense club who had been closer to be football great of the region. The chartered plane crashed in a mountainous area in the outskirts of Medellín town in Colombia on Monday. The Civil Aviation made the disclosure that the plane was given priority to land as it reported trouble but the air traffic controllers lost contact immediately.
The Brazilian football team was travelling from Bolivia to play the final of the Copa Sudamericana tournament. The news hit the entire Latin America with gloom and people were in tears in their offices and streets. Meanwhile, Brazil has begun three days of official mourning while one-minute silences have been observed at all football grounds all over the world.
It is sad that the disaster has virtually wiped out a great Brazilian football team sending shock waves in the region and beyond. Brazil takes pride in its football teams and puts everything behind when it comes to promote the game but it lost potential players this moment. Football legends Pele and Maradona as well as present superstars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have already paid tributes to the perished players. It appears that the plane crash resulted from shortage of fuel. Some others blamed electrical problem but what is to be noted is that human neglect for proper maintenance ended in the big tragedy. The plane’s black box recorders will ascertain the clear cause but the catastrophe can’t be reversed.
We must say frequent plane crashes in recent years are adding growing concerns to air passengers and the cause are mainly human neglect in proper maintenance. Some major plane crash in recent years was critically shocking with big human losses but it appears that the industry has failed to plug the loopholes. The world has to mourn such loss once again.
