New revelations about the Chapecoense tragedy – News

Brazilian federal police have arrested in the last few hours a Bolivian citizen, identified as Celia Castedo Monastery, investigated the air tragedy that claimed the lives of 71 people, including football players, assistants and managers of the Chapecoense football club.

As announced by police in Corumbá, a Brazilian town on the border with Bolivia, Castedo Monasterio was responsible for analyzing and approving the plane’s flight plan, and was wanted by Bolivian justice.

The woman was an official of the Administration of Airports and Auxiliary Air Navigation Services of Bolivia (AASANA) and after the disaster in Colombia on November 28, 2016, she said she received “Pressure and harassment” by their superiors.

“The Bolivian woman was a specialist in flight safety and, at the time, fraudulently failed to meet the minimum procedural requirements for the approval of the flight plan of the plane, since in the program presented, the flight autonomy was not sufficient for the trip, ”said the Federal Police.

The tragedy that shook South American football

Seventy-one people lost their lives, including 19 players, 14 members of the technical committee and nine executives of the South Brazilian club. Only six occupants survived the crash near Medellín, Colombia: a flight attendant, an aviation technician, a journalist and three players.

In the Brazilian commission that arrived in Bolivia are Fabienne Belle and Mara Paiva, president and vice-president of the association of victims, who lost their loved ones in the LaMia accident.

A report by the Bolivian financial company BISA, clarified in 2017 that LaMia did not have insurance coverage, although it created a fund to help victims. Local justice is still investigating the case.

The LaMia plane left Santa Cruz with the Chapecoense football team on board, after being transferred from a commercial vessel from Brazil.

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An investigation by Colombian authorities concluded that the vessel rushed soon after arriving at Colombian José María Córdova airport on November 28, 2016, due to lack of fuel.

The Bolivian authorities have directed the responsibilities towards the officials of the airport and civil aviation and of the company itself, for having committed serious technical failures to carry out the fateful flight.

LaMia operated following a concession of the Avro jet from Venezuelan businessman Ricardo Albacete Vidal to Bolivian pilots Alejandro Quiroga and Marco Antonio Rocha. Quiroga died in the crash and the other pilot is on the run.