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Colombia crash pilot reported he was out of fuel

The Bolivian Lamia airlines plane, which crashed into the Colombian jungle on November 29, 2016, with the Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense onboard, is seen near Medellin, Colombia October 4, 2016. (Photo: Reuters)

Fans mourned Wednesday for a Brazilian football team decimated in a plane crash that killed 71 people in Colombia, as a recording emerged of the panicked pilot reporting he was out of fuel.

Authorities are still investigating what caused the charter flight to crash in the mountains outside Medellin as it carried Cinderella-story team Chapecoense Real to a major match.

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