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The Latest: UK experts to investigate Colombia crash boxes

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The Latest: UK experts to investigate Colombia crash boxes | iNFOnews.ca
This photo released by the Bolivian Soccer Federation Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, shows the doomed BAE 146 Avro RJ85 LaMia jet, registration CP-2933, parked at the Viru Viru airport in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Oct. 4, 2016. There are indications that the LaMia jet ran out of fuel, moments before crashing into the Andes near Medellin, on Monday evening. It is not known whether the lack of fuel was because they did not have enough for the flight, a leak or for some other reason. (Andres Dorado/Bolivian Soccer Federation via AP)
Original Publication Date: November 30, 2016 7:35PM
Publication Updated: April 27, 2025 4:26AM

MEDELLIN, Colombia – The Latest on the aftermath of the Colombia plane crash that killed members of a Brazilian soccer team (all times local):

6:50 a.m.

British aviation experts will investigate the black box and flight data recorder from the plane carrying a small-town Brazilian soccer team that crashed in Colombia.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch says that the key instruments offering clues to what happened to the jetliner will be brought to Britain in the coming days for study. The plane, a BAE 146 Avro RJ85, crashed Monday and killed 71 people.

The chartered plane crashed while ferrying the team to the finals of a prestigious South American tournament.

Crash investigators aided by dramatic cockpit recordings are trying to find out why the British-built jet apparently ran out of fuel before slamming into a muddy mountainside just a few miles from Medellin’s international airport.

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