Audio of Pilot of Chapecoense plane before the flight took off
The pilot of the plane which crashed in Colombia on Tuesday morning can be heard asking the mayor for help to talk to Agencia Nacional de Aviacao Civil (ANAC), to change planes to an Air Venezuela.
The 'superhero' pilot of the Colombian plane crash lost his father in an air disaster, it was revealed today.
Miguel 'Micky' Quiroga, 54, was flying the Bolivian Lamia plane when it crashed in Colombia, killing 71 people early this morning - including all but three of the Chapecoense football team.
As it became clear the flight would end in disaster as the CP-2933 plane began to suffer catastrophic electrical problems, Micky reportedly dumped the plane's remaining fuel, so it would not explode on impact.
It's believed his quick-thinking is the reason six people survived the tragedy.
Today, it has emerged that Micky's father, Orlando Quiroga, was also a pilot who died in a crash in 1963, aged 53.
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