Bogota, April 28: The plane crash that claimed 71 lives in 2016, nearly wiping out an entire Brazilian football team, was due to fuel shortage, a report released by Colombia's Civil Aviation Authority said.
The report released on Friday confirmed that the British Aerospace Avro RJ85 ran out of fuel just before reaching its destination in Medellin, Xinhua news agency reported.
Seventy-one of the 77 passengers on-board died on November 28, including 19 Chapecoense players and all of the club's coaching staff.
The team from southern Brazil was travelling to Medellin to play the first leg of the Copa Sudamerica final against Colombia's Atletico Nacional.
"The plane has alarms and lights that turn on that tell the crew to do something when fuel is low," Chief Investigator Miguel Camacho told reporters on Friday.
The report said the plane -- operated by charter company LaMia -- departed Santa Cruz de La Sierra in Bolivia with insufficient fuel for the 2,972km journey.
"The crew insisted on carrying out their original flight plan, even when they realised they had a very limited amount of fuel," the report said. "But there was no communication with air traffic control."
The report followed a 15-month inquiry into the incident by the Colombian authorities, which worked in conjunction with counterparts in Bolivia and Brazil.
LaMia's General Manager Gustavo Vargas Gamboa was charged with manslaughter following the incident. Criminal charges have also been brought against LaMia co-owner Marco Antonio Rocha, whose whereabouts are unknown.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
