Of course he was born the same day Danilo's career took off; Lorenzo was his lucky charm, his prince, and the boy worshipped him right back. The fact that Quiroga, the deceased pilot, was also the airline's co-owner might well indicate an ongoing tension between safety and profit margins. But when I heard only the sound of wind, I realized that the worst would happen.”“I first thought that God would perform a miracle and everyone would survive,” Neto says. Of the LaMia crew, only Tumiri and flight attendant Ximena Suárez survived. When he tried again, Simone still wouldn't listen. Arena Condá ignited.“Danilo! Some of this, to laymen, arises from the complexities of just getting a jet off the ground; when an accident is blamed on mechanical failure, the public barely grasps the terminology, let alone the cause. “Danilo had no meanness about him,” says defender Alan Ruschel. Fans had been sleeping outside the stadium for days already, grieving and “waiting,” as Ilaides says, “for their idols to arrive.” She told her husband, Eunício, “Our place is with them," and the next morning they went to Arena Condá and she hugged everyone she could. And the whole time it was about this happiness in having saved them, but I was there in the middle, hearing this wonderful thing, yet knowing that most stories there were sad....”There was but one serene moment, after the media rush: a climb through the mud, just a handful of team members, to the top of Cerro Gordo. “All the wives, everyone, had plans—to have another child, to build a house, to travel—with that person. I was destroyed, yet I had to be strong for Pallaoro's wife, his daughter....”Maringá almost declined when, within a week, the new president asked him to come back to Chapecó. None of the six survivors recall that moment.

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After service with other airlines and a period in storage between 2010 and 2013, it was acquired by LaMia, a Venezuelan-owned airline operating out of Bolivia. “The fans love me,” he said then, “and I want to make history here.”Both Danilo and Chapecoense, meanwhile, had found their financial footing. So far, no recovered cockpit recording or communication with ground control has revealed why that didn't occur.Every inquiry into the crash of Flight 2933 points to the same cause: The plane exhausted its fuel supply 11 miles short of the runway because the pilot had decided against a refueling stop.At 9:30 p.m., four hours and 12 minutes into its fuel capacity, the plane began its descent into Medellín. People.com When teammates chided him for frugality, he would retort, “I put everything into my properties. “But this strength that the people gave me was very special. Of course it rained far harder a week later, when 100,000 mourners filled the stadium and the blocks surrounding, and pallbearers carried in 50 caskets. The fans, for them, were everything.”“THEY HAD BECOME EVERY BRAZILIAN’S SECOND FAVORITE, A BATTERED NATION’S HAPPY SURPRISE.”Indeed, Chape's run to the Copa Sudamericana final, an away-and-home set against Colombian power Atlético Nacional, was one of those once-in-a-lifetime phenomena that shreds the usual bounds of fandom. De Nes Filho brought in an outsider, former Grêmio GM Rui Costa, as the team's executive director and persuaded the 53-year-old Maringá, who left the club in 2015, to direct futebol operations. Even when I long for him now, I don't get mad. “Losing, losing, losing,” says his sister, Daniele. Only God himself can give us strength. Big Green starters could be seen all over town, shopping, sipping espresso, dropping kids at school. This was attended by 40,000 spectators with live coverage on Two weeks after the crash on 15 December, LaMia's lawyer announced that the airline had agreed with the International Civil Aviation Organization to a compensation scheme that would pay US$165,000 to each deceased passenger's family. Freitas sits staring at her phone: You can't tell if she is listening. My pain will not pass.”By then, Danilo's mother had made the trip from Cianorte to Chapecó. “He had this habit of calling people “Danilo had no meanness about him. Matches all over the world also began with a Besides changing their profile pictures on social media to a black version of Chapecoense's badge and issuing messages of solidarity,In Colombia, a four-hour tribute took place at Atlético Nacional's stadium at the time the match Chapecoense had been scheduled to play would have kicked off. At times, she couldn't help but look at those who lived and wonder: Why you?“It's confusing,” she says. I didn't want this, because he wasn't the first or last child to die.