The Brazilian Federal Police stopped this Thursday a woman investigated by negligence in the case of Chapecoense. It is one of the best known air tragedies in recent years, which occurred in 2016 and in which 71 people died belonging to the Brazilian club Chapecoense among soccer players, trainers and managers.
The detainee is Celia Castedo Monastery, Former employee of the Administration of Airports and Auxiliary Services to Air Navigation of Bolivia (Aasana). As confirmed by the police of Corumbá, a city on the border with Bolivia, this Bolivian woman, who was also a fugitive from justice in her country, would have been responsible for the analysis and approval of the flight plan of the plane in which the Chapecoense traveled.
“The Bolivian woman was a specialist in flight safety and, at the time, would have fraudulently failed to observe the minimum procedural requirements for the approval of the aircraft flight plan, since in the program presented, the flight autonomy was not adequate for the trip ”, the authorities informed in a statement.
Now, Castedo will remain detained in the city of Corumbá while the pertinent procedures are carried out for his surrender to the Bolivian authorities.
A tragic accident in which only six people survived
It was in November 2016 when the plane in which the Chapecoense was traveling crashed 17 kilometers from José María Córdova airport, near the city of Medellín. The team was heading to Colombia to play the final of the South American Cup 2016 before him National Athletic.
The aircraft ran out of fuel. Of the 77 crew members who traveled on that plane only six people survived: three footballers, two crew members and a journalist.
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