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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Kasaragod: Government Medical College gets first MBBS student from Rajasthan
Kasaragod: The Government Medical College, which recently secured the National Medical Commission’s approval, admitted its first MBBS student on Monday, with Gurwinder Singh from Alwar in Rajasthan becoming the first of the 50 students in the inaugural batch of the College.
Singh received a warm welcome into the College with sweets by Principal-in-Charge Dr. KK Santosh Kumar and Medical Superintendent Dr Praveen. The admission procedure was formally completed with the recording of his attendance, reports On Manorama.
The College has seven seats reserved for candidates from the All-India rank list, and Singh qualified for a seat in the College under the All-India Medical Entrance quota.
Unlike the other government medical colleges in the state, where classes started this week after the admission of students during the first round of counseling, the Kasaragod Medical College had to wait for approval from the National Medical Commission. The College received the approval and began enrolling students after conclusion of counseling.
The classes will begin on September 30, after completion of Phase 2 of allotment. The first batch students are currently provided temporary hostel facilities at Cherkkala.
While the second student under the All-India rank list is expected to join the College today, the authorities have said they cannot guarantee how long the new students will remain, adding that some students may opt to move to other colleges if they are allotted seats there.
