Colombia plane crash: 71 dead on Brazil soccer team's charter flight. The world united in the Du

Near Medellin, Colombia (CNN)Brazil is mourning the deaths of dozens of its countrymen aboard a flight that crashed into the side of a mountain in Colombia. Investigators are examining flight recorders retrieved from LAMIA Flight 2933 to determine what brought down the plane with 77 people late Monday night local time. Players, coaches and invited guests from Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team were on board the charter flight. Seventy-one people

Today Wefnesday November 30, a remembrance will be held for the victims at the Atanasio Girardot Stadium in Medellin, Colombia, where Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team had been due to play Colombia's Atletico Nacional team. Among the victims were around 20 journalists on the way to cover what was supposed to be a heartwarming chapter in a Cinderella story for a team of unlikely champions. The soccer club, which has risen the ranks in Brazilian soccer and has a devoted national fan base, was set to play in the first leg of the South American Cup finals Wednesday.

On Tuesday, hundreds of heartbroken fans gathered at Arena Conda in the team's hometown of Chapeco, Brazil, to mourn their loss. were killed and six survived.

Pablo Marin - The Mariana DAngelo Editorial Group