Charter Flight Carrying Brazilian Football Squad Disappear in the Mountains Outside Medellín

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Gustavo Sorola and Chris Demarais uncover the details of LaMia Flight 2933 carrying a Brazilian soccer team and their entourage from Santa Cruz, Bolivia to the final match of the 2016 Copa Sudamericana tournament in Colombia. The flight would disappear in the mountains outside of Medellín after a fuel emergency and resulting engine flame out. What happened to LaMia Flight 2933? How did a low fuel situation get out of hand so quickly? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Find us on social media and buy our merch here! https://linktr.ee/BlackBoxDownPod Go to blackboxdownpod.com to support us directly! This episode brought to you by Lectric Bikes, go to http://lectricebikes.com to find adventure with Lectric eBikes. Already a FIRST Member and need your Private RSS feed for this show? Go here: http://bit.ly/FIRSTRSS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Restartez production.
0:07.0	November 28, 2016.
0:11.0	Lemia Flight 2933, a chartered Avro RJ-85 jet with 77 people on board, is flying a Brazilian
0:18.8	soccer team from Santa Cruz, Bolivia to the final match of the 2016 Copa Sudamérica tournament
0:24.3	in Colombia.
0:26.0	Following the passengers are 22 players of the Chapaconesque Football Club, 23 staff members,
0:32.0	21 journalists, 2 guests and 4 crew members.
0:35.8	When nearing their destination airport, the crew is instructed to enter a holding pattern
0:39.4	to wait for 3 other aircraft to land before them.
0:42.6	Three minutes later, the crew asks for priority landing because of unspecified problems
0:46.8	with fuel.
0:48.2	Air traffic control tells them to expect clearance in approximately 7 minutes.
0:52.2	Three minutes after that, while on their second lap in the holding pattern, the crew
0:55.6	declares a fuel emergency and requests immediate descent clearance and vectors to the runway.
1:00.9	The engines then flame out and as the aircraft descends to the airport, air traffic control
1:05.0	can no longer find the plane on radar.
1:07.6	What happened to Lemia Flight 2933?
1:09.8	How did a low fuel situation get out of hand so quickly?
1:12.6	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
1:14.9	Hello everyone, welcome to Black Box Down, it's Gus and Chris, hello Chris.
1:23.4	I guess we're here doing another episode.
1:25.6	Just as a reminder, if you listen to the last episode, this episode might sound a little
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