[ti:Plane Carrying Football Team From Brazil Crashes in Colombia] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]¸ü¶àÌýÁ¦Çë·ÃÎÊ51VOA.COM [00:00.12]At least 76 people were killed when an airplane carrying a Brazilian football team [00:07.12]crashed Monday night in Colombia. [00:09.96]A Colombian police commander [00:12.92]said five of the 81 people on the chartered plane survived. [00:18.64]The aircraft was carrying 72 passengers and nine crew members. [00:25.20]The team was on its way to play in the final [00:30.09]of the Copa Sudamericana football competition at the time of the crash. [00:37.36]The sport is called soccer in the United States. [00:42.00]The plane came down in a mountainous area near the city of Medellin. [00:48.93]The flight had started in Bolivia. [00:52.60]The aircraft's owner was identified as LaMia, [00:57.56]a small Venezuelan airline company. [01:01.44]Officials said the plane, a British Aerospace 146, [01:07.60]was designed for short flights. [01:10.84]The crew reported an electrical failure [01:15.20]and declared an emergency at 2200 hours local time (0300 GMT). [01:21.48]Colombian officials are investigating what happened. [01:25.92]The head of the country's civil aviation agency [01:29.64]said he cannot rule out the possibility [01:32.84]that the plane used up all its fuel before the crash. [01:39.80]The plane was carrying the Chapecoense football team, [01:44.24]from the small city of Chapeco in southern Brazil. [01:48.88]Chapecoense was to have played Wednesday [01:53.04]in the first of a two-game Copa Sudamericana final [01:57.32]against Atletico Nacional of Medellin. [02:01.52]The mayor of Chapeco said he and other officials [02:06.04]just missed joining the team and reporters on the flight to Colombia. [02:13.32]They instead decided to take a commercial airline flight. [02:18.72]I'm Christopher Jones-Cruise.