Heartbroken fans paid tribute to Chapecoense football players with this beautiful candlelight vigil
REUTERS/Fredy Builes
The players were among 71 killed when a "total electrical failure" caused a chartered flight to crash into the Andes mountain range, leaving only six survivors.
The pilot of the doomed flight can be heard repeatedly requesting permission to land in leaked audio footage.
"Miss, LAMIA 933 is in total failure, total electrical failure, without fuel," he tells the operator just minutes before the crash.
The disaster sent shockwaves through the continent as people begin to pay tribute to those who were onboard.
Chapecoense staff who didn't board the flight filled their home stadium alongside thousands of fans in Brazil on the same night they were due to play their biggest game to date.
Meanwhile, in Colombia, 45,000 fans of rival team Atletico Nacional filled the Atanasio Girardot stadium and held a candlelit vigil as a sign of solidarity. See how fans have been remembering their sporting heroes below.
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