Plane carrying Chilean soccer stars found in mountains after 50 years

Climbers in the Chilean Andes have found the wreckage of a plane that disappeared more than half a century ago with a team of soccer stars on board. Images of the twisted wreck of the LAN Chile Douglas DC-3 that went down April 3, 1961, were shown on Chilean television Sunday, released by the climbers who said the find was in Maule, about 186 miles south of Santiago.

Quite a bit of the fuselage is still there, a lot of things scattered over the area, including human bones.

Leonardo Albornoz, mountaineer

The plane was carrying 24 people when it crashed, with all presumed dead. Those on board included eight members of the Green Cross soccer team, coach Arnaldo Vasquez, and other team staff and friends who were returning to Santiago from a match in Osorno.

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