Jimothy Posted 29 November 2016 Posted 29 November 2016 38 minutes ago, Adster said: Heard on Twitter that French Radio are reporting that PSG are going to Donate 40 Million Euro's. Hopefully some other top flight and Prem teams do so also. Tragic news for all involved. RIP. Arsenal donating £30m too apparently.
Corky Posted 29 November 2016 Posted 29 November 2016 How do you even begin to rebuild the club from here? Just shattering news, unimaginable what the families are going through.
Jattdogg Posted 29 November 2016 Posted 29 November 2016 Cant stop thinking about this today, feel so gutted. heard the goalie who had initially survived called his wife from hospital and died a short time later. They will rebuild for sure but its going to be very tough. hope they can use this tragedy to become an amazing team again. R.I.P to all those on board and thoughts are with the families and friends left behind. hope the survivors make a full recovery.
Guest Bilo Posted 29 November 2016 Posted 29 November 2016 4 hours ago, Dan LCFC said: I thought the same. I don't know how you as a club recover from that. God knows. It'd completely rip the heart out of the club, and you may never recover from it. Manchester United did, Torino didn't. The thought of this side being similar in so many ways to Leicester absolutely chills the blood considering we're flying out to Porto next week.
stripeyfox Posted 29 November 2016 Posted 29 November 2016 All the big clubs (and some small ones too) practically fly everywhere nowadays. Mechanical failure, pilot error, bad weather etc can strike anywhere so everyone is bound to wonder "it could have been us". For the dream to die like this is an absolutely appalling tragedy. Thoughts with all those affected
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 29 November 2016 Posted 29 November 2016 8 hours ago, stripeyfox said: Early comments on AVherald point to fuel exhaustion as the flight time 4hr37m is at the very upper limits of the aircraft's range. Relatively low speed crash, no post crash fire may increase chances of survival Rescue effort hampered by fog - crash happened around midnight local time. This is the most likely cause, as a pilot of a similar aircraft has stated that rhey are flyable, regardless of an electrical fault. Another possibility appears to be bad weather, and high mountains. If it is the fuel, then someone has made a dreadful error RIP, to all those who lost their lives.
jammie82uk Posted 29 November 2016 Posted 29 November 2016 This is so sad, RIP to them all Been seeing them compared to our club all day didn't realise that they actually contacted the club on twitter
razh Posted 30 November 2016 Posted 30 November 2016 Words can't express how depressing this is. RIP Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Swarles Barkley Posted 30 November 2016 Posted 30 November 2016 Would be nice to invite them over in the summer, hopefully they can have a squad by then and have a friendly match at the king power. Reckon we would sell that out and donate all the money to them, plus any from tv revenues etc. Just a thought but nevertheless RIP to all those who lost their lives and my thoughts are with the friends and families.
CraigieH Posted 30 November 2016 Posted 30 November 2016 Tragedy strikes Chapecoense, serial overachievers dubbed a ‘Brazilian Leicester’ Chapecoense, the Brazilian team on board the plane that has crashed in Colombia, were in the middle of a fairytale season before the tragedy struck... Source: http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw9P-02TA A sad day for all linked and related to the team taken in the air crash in Brazil. It's seems our story resonates with so many, all around the world. But when you hear of it in such tragic circumstances, you would only hope our club would acknowledge and in some way pay their respects. I didn't know of the team, but now feel strangely compelled to find out more. R.I.P.
Nalis Posted 30 November 2016 Posted 30 November 2016 Football gets a lot of stick in the press so its really nice to see such generous gestures from the footballing world. Think a lot of teams will be lining up to play them in a friendly but would still be nice to offer given the comparisions. Thoughts go to all those affected.
stripeyfox Posted 30 November 2016 Posted 30 November 2016 Just skimming through the comments on AVHerald and it seems that fuel exhaustion seems to be very high on the list of possibilities. The flight was at the very top end of the range of the aircraft and it had to hold to accomodate another aircraft diverting so quite possible that it ran out of fuel. Further evidence to support the theory is that authorities say their is no fuel at the crash site (no post crash fire) and at least one of the engines does not appear to have been running at impact.
Guest Lako42 Posted 30 November 2016 Posted 30 November 2016 18 hours ago, jonthefox said: Maybe we could show our support?. maybe we could all wear a green scarf , all chip in for a surfer flag ?. Any other ideas?. I like the thought but I don't think it would be wise to wear green against Porto
TiffToff88 Posted 30 November 2016 Posted 30 November 2016 19 hours ago, Adster said: Heard on Twitter that French Radio are reporting that PSG are going to Donate 40 Million Euro's. Hopefully some other top flight and Prem teams do so also. Tragic news for all involved. RIP. Unfortunately PSG have released a statement saying that although they expressed their condolences, they have NOT offered to donate any money. That takes guts to announce something like that. A company like PSG can certainly afford a donation of that amount, and it would perhaps have looked better on the clubs image to just go along with it. But i do feel like either way, PSG have been put in an awkward situation here.
stripeyfox Posted 30 November 2016 Posted 30 November 2016 10 minutes ago, TiffToff88 said: Unfortunately PSG have released a statement saying that although they expressed their condolences, they have NOT offered to donate any money. That takes guts to announce something like that. A company like PSG can certainly afford a donation of that amount, and it would perhaps have looked better on the clubs image to just go along with it. But i do feel like either way, PSG have been put in an awkward situation here. I was a bit sceptical when I saw that PSG had pledged that amount of money. If PSG and loads of other clubs cough up 30M each then this small team from Brazil will become as wealthy as some of the biggest clubs in the world!
tom27111 Posted 30 November 2016 Posted 30 November 2016 It would be a great gesture if all the Premier League clubs forfeited 5% of this new TV deal and donated it. A small amount individualy would make a huge difference to a club starting almost from scratch. RIP. An awful tragedy.
MPH Posted 30 November 2016 Posted 30 November 2016 Hearing very strong rumours now that they have listened to the flight recorders and have definitely identified that the plane ran out of fuel. How is that even possible? I mean, how on earth do you not think about adding enough fuel to the plane? And if the fuel tanks were indeed full on take off, how on earth did it run out so quickly? Absolutely staggering...
StanSP Posted 30 November 2016 Posted 30 November 2016 3 minutes ago, MPH said: Hearing very strong rumours now that they have listened to the flight recorders and have definitely identified that the plane ran out of fuel. How is that even possible? I mean, how on earth do you not think about adding enough fuel to the plane? And if the fuel tanks were indeed full on take off, how on earth did it run out so quickly? Absolutely staggering... apparently it was held off from landing because another plane got priority.
MPH Posted 30 November 2016 Posted 30 November 2016 23 minutes ago, StanSP said: apparently it was held off from landing because another plane got priority. Surely if you know you are about to run out of fuel you just say " well bugger that, i'm coming in to land"and then you kind of jump to the front of the Que and face the rap for it later. Surely that has to be a better option?
CosbehFox Posted 30 November 2016 Posted 30 November 2016 8 hours ago, Lako42 said: I like the thought but I don't think it would be wise to wear green against Porto We are already on to wear Red!
Karljohn Posted 30 November 2016 Posted 30 November 2016 Confirmed ran out of fuel. Requests to land came in at 9000 feet. The same plane flew Argentina to a world cup qualifier earlier this month. Hoping Chapacoense can somehow rebuild.
Jattdogg Posted 1 December 2016 Posted 1 December 2016 6 hours ago, Karljohn said: Confirmed ran out of fuel. Requests to land came in at 9000 feet. The same plane flew Argentina to a world cup qualifier earlier this month. Hoping Chapacoense can somehow rebuild. I read that too. if it ends up being the case that the pilot didnt stop for fuel then that would absolutely infuritate me as someone who lost a loved one on that flight. Given that he didnt stop it looks likely to be serious pilot error ( unless some fuel leak did them in.)
Captain... Posted 1 December 2016 Posted 1 December 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-38165757 Quote Brazil's O Globo reported that because of a delayed departure, a refuelling stop in Cobija, on the border between Brazil and Bolivia, was abandoned because the airport did not operate at night. The pilot had the option to refuel in Bogota, but headed straight to Medellin. "The pilot was the one who took the decision," Gustavo Vargas, a representative of Lamia, which operated the plane, was quoted as saying in Bolivian newspaper Pagina Siete. "He thought the fuel would last." Approaching Medellin, the pilot asked for permission to land because of fuel problems, without making a formal distress call. But another plane from airline VivaColombia had priority because it had already reported mechanical problems, the co-pilot of another plane in the air at the time said. The pilot of the crashed plane is heard asking urgently for directions to the airport before the audio recording ends. What an avoidable tragedy, such a pointless and needless waste of life.
foxy boxing Posted 1 December 2016 Posted 1 December 2016 clearly the airline is going to be negligible as the plane ran out of fuel and should never have been kept waiting to land. did the pilot inform the groundstaff that the plane was running out of fuel, if so they are culpable
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