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spokesman for Bolivia's civil aviation agency, said the aircraft had arrived earlier in the day from the city of Cochabamba and picked up the Brazilian team at Santa Cruz's Viru Viru airport. Torrico said that the plane underwent an inspection before departing for Colombia and reported no problems.


He said that the LaMia airline hails from the Venezuelan city of Merida but later re-established itself in Santa Cruz. He said the airline had been used in the past to shuttle several Bolivian teams as well as Medellin's Atletico Nacional for matches around South America.


Brazilian aviation authorities said they had denied LaMia's request for a charter flight directly from Sao Paulo Cheap Boston Celtics Jerseys , saying only a Brazilian or Colombian company was allowed to operate the requested route.


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Brazil's president says that authorities are mobilizing to help the team and families of victims in the plane crash in Colombia that killed members of a Brazilian first division soccer team.


In a series of tweets Tuesday morning, Michel Temer says officials from the foreign ministry and aviation officials have been called to help.


He said that "the government will do everything possible to alleviate the pain" of family members of the players and journalists who died in the crash.


A chartered aircraft with 81 people on board, including the Chapecoense soccer team which was heading to Colombia