La Unión — Here is what we know, and don’t know, about flight LMI 2933, which crashed into the Colombian mountains on Monday night with a Brazilian football team on board, killing 71 people. Six people survived. The charter flight from the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz reported "electrical failures" at about 10pm local time on Monday (3am GMT on Tuesday). Soon after, the plane crashed just short of its destination, the Medellin international airport in northwestern Colombia. The plane broke apart on impact in the remote mountains of Cerro Gordo, leaving the shattered white fuselage plastered on a hillside. The plane’s two black boxes have been found. Officials did not immediately say how long it would take to analyse their contents. A Colombian military source told AFP the plane did not explode on impact, raising suspicions it had run out of fuel when it crashed. The mountainous terrain is very difficult to access, a local official said. Rescuers had to hike for more than half an hour...
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