A plane carrying a Brazilian professional soccer team crashed in the mountains near Medellín, Colombia, late Monday, killing 71 people. Five people survived the crash of the charter plane, according to authorities. Officials initially reported that the plane was carrying 81 people and that, variously, 75 or 76 of them had died. "The British Aerospace 146 aircraft was carrying Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team to a tournament in Medellín, Colombia's second-largest city," John Otis reports for NPR from the Colombian capital, Bogotá. "The plane had departed from the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz but reported an electrical emergency shortly before crashing late Monday night," he says. Reporter Pablo Medina Uribe spoke with NPR's Morning Edition and said it's still not clear why the plane went down, although some are speculating it may have run out of fuel. "What we do know is that when the plane crashed, it broke into two parts and didn't catch fire," he said. "So that's why one of the
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