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The president and four footballers of Palmas Fútbol y Regatas, a club from the fourth division of the Brazilian Championship, died this Sunday in a plane crash together with the pilot of the aircraft in which they were traveling to the city of Goiania to play a game, team sources reported.
The private plane chartered by the club fell to the ground for reasons still unknown shortly after taking off from Porto Nacional, municipality of the Amazonian state of Tocantins, around 8.15 local time (11.15 GMT) this Sunday.
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In a note in which it regretted the accident, the Palmas club reported that there were no survivors among the six occupants of the aircraft.
The plane was totally destroyed after hitting the ground and exploding in a wooded region known as Luzimangues, a few meters from the head of the runway of the Aeroclub Asociación Tocantinense de Aviación (ATA) of Porto Nacional.
According to the statement released by the Palmas club, in addition to the president of the entity, Lucas Meira, in the accident also footballers Lucas Praxedes, Guilherme Noé, Ranule and Marcus Molinari died.
The pilot of the plane also died, identified only as Commander Wagner.
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The plane he was going to transport the soccer players to the city of Goiania, capital of the state of Goiás and where Palmas was going to face Vila Nova on Monday, in a match for the so-called Green Cup.
“We regret to report that there are no survivors. In this moment of pain and dismay, the club asks for prayers for family members, to which it will offer due support, “said the club in its note.
The management of the Vila Nova club, which would be Palmas’ rival on Monday, also released a statement to regret what happened and stated that, in addition to accepting the postponement of the match indefinitely, will pay tribute to the accident victims at their next engagement.
In addition to play the Brazilian fourth division Championship and the Green Cup, a regional tournament that faces clubs from the north, center and west of Brazil, Palmas is currently contesting the Tocantins state regional championship.
Despite being a club with little relevance in Brazil, founded in 1977 in the city of Palmas, the capital of Tocantins, has won the regional championship of this state seven timesoy in 2004 he surprised by reaching the quarterfinals of the Copa do Brasil.
Just over four years ago, another plane crash in Colombia caused the death of most of the Brazilian club’s squad Chapecoense
.
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The accident occurred on November 28, 2016 when the plane in which the team traveled to Medellín to compete in lat the end of the South American Cup
crashed 17 kilometers from the airport in the Colombian city.
In the tragedy, 71 of the 77 people who were in the aircraft died of the Bolivian airline Lamia, among them players, members of the board of directors and the coaching staff, as well as a score of journalists who accompanied the club in its first final in an international tournament.
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