Colombia: Black boxes found from Brazilian football team plane crash

La Union (Colombia), Nov 30: Emergency workers have found the black boxes with flight data and cockpit voice recordings from a plane that crashed in the Colombian mountains with a Brazilian football team on board, officials have said.

Luis Perez Gutierrez, the governor for Antioquia department in northwestern Colombia, where the charter flight went down, announced yesterday that the two black boxes had been located.

Aviation officials later confirmed the find.

Officials did not immediately say how long it would take to analyze their contents.

The plane carrying Brazilian pro football players crashed in Colombia on Tuesday.

The plane that left Bolivia with 72 passengers crashed on its path to the Medellin international airport.

PTI