Pilot told Colombia controllers 'no fuel' before crash

Thursday, December 1, 2016

MEDELLIN, Colombia -- The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air-traffic controllers he had run out of fuel and desperately pleaded for permission to land before crashing into the Andes, according to a leaked recording of the final minutes of the doomed flight.

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