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The accident occurred when a plane that took off from the ground at the beginning of the flight suddenly veered off again and crashed at the end of the runway, the club said in a statement.
The footballers had to fly 800 km to the center of the country to play a match with Vila Nova.
The accident killed the club’s president, Lucas Meira, and the players Lucas Praxedes, Guilherme Noe, Ranule and Marcus Molinari, as well as the pilot of the plane.
No one who flew in a small plane survived.
Palmas Futebol e Regatas Club was founded in 1997. It plays in the fourth Brazilian league.
The cause of the plane crash is not yet known.
This is not the first Brazilian soccer tragedy in the air. In 2016, almost the entire Chapecoense team died on their way to the final of the Coma Sudamericana competition in Colombia when a plane crashed into a mountain near Medellín.
The former captain of Internacional Fernandao died in a helicopter accident two years earlier.
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