Latest: A chartered plane with a Brazilian first division football team has crashed in Colombia while on its way to the finals of a regional tournament, killing 76 people.

A BOEING 737 jetliner with 131 people aboard crashed as it prepared to land and broke into three pieces at a Colombian island in the Caribbean early yesterday. The region’s governor said it was a miracle that only one person died.

Some 130 passengers and crew escaped alive after their airliner crashed and broke into pieces landing on a Caribbean island today.