The crash occurred about two kilometers away from the airport at a village of Dacha-Suu, an area popular for holiday homes in Kyrgyzstan, around 7:18 a.m. local time.
Atletico Nacional has requested that the Copa Sudamericana title be awarded to the Brazilian team, Chapecoense following a plane crash that killed almost all team members Monday night.
3 Brazilian players who would have travelled with their team members for the Copa Sudamerica finals are devastated at the news of the plane crash that has claimed the lives of their colleagues.
The ill-fated British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane that crashed Monday night, killing almost all 81 people on board, was the same aircraft that transported Lionel Messi and other members of the Argentinian national team to Brazil almost three weeks ago.
Scores of people are feared dead in a “tragedy of huge proportions” as a British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane carrying 81 people, including members of Chapecoense, a Brazilian soccer team crashed Monday night.