Twenty journalists are among the dead in the airline crash that devastated a Brazilian soccer team, officials said Tuesday. Colombian aviation authorities said 21 of the 77 people aboard the charter flight were journalists covering the Chapecoense team from southern Brazil and its upcoming South American Cup match in Medellin, Colombia. One journalist was among the six survivors: Rafael Valmorbida of Radio Oeste Capital, a station in the Brazilian city of Chapeco, where the team is based.
"We lost more than just a team," said the station's website. "We lost friends, partners, colleagues and family members."
The station called for prayers for Valmorbida's recovery, and for three other station journalists who died. The journalists, all men, included cameramen, photographers, commentators and reporters from radio stations in Brazil as well as larger media outlets such as Fox and Globo, a large Brazilian conglomerate.
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