Erwin Tumiri (centre) said terrified passengers left their seats and started screaming as the CP-2933 plane, struck by catastrophic electrical problems, began to plummet into a mountainside. He says he was one of only six to survive the disaster which killed 71 - including all but three members of the Chapecoense football team (top right) - because he 'followed safety procedures'. Another survivor, stewardess Ximena Suarez (inset), told a government official the lights went off as the jet started to go down. It comes as it emerged that Alan Ruschel (bottom, second from left), one of the players who survived, asked rescuers 'My family, my friends, where are they?' as he was being lifted from the crash site. As Brazil declared three days of mourning, Colombia's civil aviation authority identified the players who had survived the crash. As well as Ruschel, 27, Helio Neto (top, second from left), 31, and goalkeeper Jackson Follmann (bottom left), 24, were found alive at the crash site (bottom right). Journalist Rafael Valmorbida (top left), who worked for Chapeco's West Capital Radio and had 20 years of experience in the industry, also survived.
Heavily pregnant mother collapses and dies just hours after complaining of severe headaches - but doctors manage to SAVE her baby
A baby has been saved by doctors after her mother died suddenly while eight months pregnant. Pamela Ewart (top) was taken ill on Sunday at her home in Airdrie, Scotland, after complaining of severe headaches and died in Monklands hospital (pictured) just one day later. But the 31-year-old's daughter Poppy was saved by medics and is fighting for her life in intensive care with her father at her bedside. Poppy’s grandfather said the next 48 hours were ‘critical’ for the newborn baby.
- 'They stood up and shouted when the plane started to crash. I am alive because I curled up in foetal position': Crew member describes terrifying final moments of doomed Colombian flight
- Heavily pregnant mother collapses and dies just hours after complaining of severe headaches - but doctors manage to SAVE her baby
- 'Er, I'm not sure which way to go now': Air traffic controller fumbled instructions to a Flybe holiday jet moments before it almost crashed with another plane
- 26,000 National Lottery players have had their accounts hacked by cybercriminals
- The primary school where giggling is a crime: Mother is hauled into an emergency meeting because her five-year-old daughter cannot stop laughing at her teacher's name... Miss Butt
- 'My marriage is on the rocks': Women confess the shocking reasons they're trying to get pregnant WITHOUT telling their partners
- Father-of-five almost dies after spider sank its fangs into his leg to leave him with rotting flesh and attacked his baby son on caravan holiday
- 'I'll be devastated if someone finds it and makes £80,000': Woman who was given two £5 notes with the collectable AK47 serial number accidentally spends one in the PUB
- Clarifications and corrections
- Kind-hearted biker who tries to return a driver's wallet and cell he had left on top of his car is sworn at... so gets his revenge by SMASHING the phone
- Two young clubbers were 'yanked out of a taxi and dumped next to a reservoir after a horror ride with a violent Uber driver'
- Mother tells of her pain after her son, 24, was killed by his factory worker colleague speeding home from work on Christmas Eve
- 'Bullies are COWARDS!' Furious mother takes to Facebook to protest at the youths who have strangled, kicked and punched her overweight son
- Where the trolls live: Midlothian is UK's most racist region, Northampton is sexist and north Wales is homophobic says huge study of hate Tweets
- How hundreds of middle class men are being targeted by web 'sextortionists': Criminals make millions from blackmailing victims after enticing them into compromising acts
- Airbnb threatened with legal action after 'balcony with a seaview' collapses causing four friends to be hospitalised, including one who was impaled on an iron railing
- Heartbreaking moment Brazilian footballer killed in Colombian jet crash found out he was to become a father... just ONE WEEK before he lost his life in plane tragedy
- 'It's the apocalypse': Burned out remains of Gatlinburg after thousands flee resort Tennessee towns as massive wildfire destroys homes and hotels and threatens Dollywood
- EXCLUSIVE: Sheriff’s office is investigating a bizarre blog purportedly written by kidnapped mom Sherri Papini spewing hatred against Latinos as her husband blasts talk her ordeal was part of a ‘race war’
- Kidnapped California mom had broken nose, bruises and burns covering her body, weighed 87 pounds and her blonde hair was chopped off when she was found chained on the side of road
- Eva PORN: Are these NAKED photographs of Hitler’s mistress Eva Braun? Collector claims they show Adolf’s lover frolicking at the Nazi leader’s summer home
- EXCLUSIVE: Good Samaritan tells how she called 911 after she asked kidnapped mom Sherri Papini if she was OK when she spotted her looking scared with two MEN at rest stop just days before she was found
- Maryland father, 24, pleads guilty to sexually abusing and killing his 10-week-old daughter by repeatedly dropping the baby and breaking her bones
- Russia is developing a mega-rocket that will transport supplies to build a base on the MOON, Deputy PM reveals
- All is forgiven? Trump and Romney have a 'warm' discussion as they dine on frog legs at three-Michelin star restaurant in New York amid rumors Mitt will be named secretary of state
- Barron Trump has some new pals: President-elect's 10-year-old son is surrounded by heavily-armed guards and a boat armed with machine gun as he plays at Mar-a-Lago
- Bully is knocked out cold with a single punch after chasing his intended victim down the road and trying to start a fight
- YouTuber who faced lawsuit threat from Melania Trump over video claiming her son Barron, 10, could be autistic promises to remove the clip
- Heartbreak in the locker room: Anguished Chapecoense players who were not on board the doomed flight with their Brazilian team-mates react with shock as they learn of Colombian plane tragedy
- The heartbreaking moment an abandoned German Shepherd at a shelter sees her owners and wags her tail in excitement... only for them to ask for a different dog
- Case of 'German Madeleine McCann' is solved after 15 years after officers discover DNA of dead neo-Nazi killer on her body
- The White House debuts its Christmas decorations for Obama's last holiday season - complete with a 300lb gingerbread house and Hillary Clinton's 'frosty' friends
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Kind-hearted biker who tries to return a driver's wallet and mobile he had left on top of his car is sworn at... so gets his revenge by SMASHING the phone
This extraordinary footage shows the moment a seemingly kind-hearted biker returned a driver's wallet only to then smash his phone by dropping it to the ground. In the video, the driver pulls out of a petrol station onto a road and his wallet flies out the window. The biker, riding behind him, stops to retrieve it and later returns it to the motorist. However, at the same time, he spots his phone on the roof of his vehicle. He picks it up and brandishes it in a mocking gesture in front of the driver, before casually dropping it to the floor.
Gang of travellers hurl insults and wave wooden bats as they threaten bailiffs in a shocking five-hour eviction stand-off caught on film
The bailiffs remain calm and composed while the men, one of whom is carrying a wooden bat, try to intimidate them by throwing insults and threats. In a heated exchange, one traveller calls the bailiff a 'monkey in a suit', telling him he's going nowhere and daring him to touch his caravan. The traveller, who is staying illegally on the land, thrusts his forehead on the bailiff's head before telling him to 'get the f*** out of here' in the field in Taunton, Somerset.
Police officers should need a LICENCE to investigate child sex abuse, Home Secretary Amber Rudd says
'Surprise, surprise. First day of cold weather and trains stop working': Commuters hit by delays as Britain is plunged to -10C (but swimmers are STILL braving icy early morning waters)
Large swathes of southern England and Wales woke up shivering today as temperatures plunged as low as -10C. And there were problems for railway passengers as trains were cancelled or delayed. Commuters on Greater Anglia services into London faced disruption, with dozens of trains arriving from Essex, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Hertfordshire were cancelled or delayed. Meanwhile Southern passengers in East Sussex were delayed due to a track fault between Seaford and Lewes. The coldest place in Britain overnight was Sennybridge, in Powys, Wales, where it was just -9.7C (as shown in the map, top left). Pictured today: An aerial view of a frosty Surrey (left), the fountains at Trafalgar Square in London which had frozen over this morning (top right) and a jogger runs through Richmond Park in South West London (bottom right).
'If I had darts I'd stick them where the sun don't shine': Abuse victim's mother calls Eric Bristow 'the most offensive man that's breathed oxygen' - as he demands £5,000 from BBC to discuss football paedophile row
Marilyn Hawes, right today, whose three children are victims of sexual abuse, called the 'Crafty Cockney', left, a 'bully' on live TV and told him: 'If I had a set of darts I'd stick them where the sun don't shine'. She added: 'I find you the most deeply offensive man that's breathed oxygen. I was up until midnight helping people devastated by what he has said. He could have blood on his hands. He is an abuser himself'. Bristow, 59, caused outrage on Twitter by claimed abuse victims should have stood up to those who assaulted them and 'sorted them out' as adults. In an uncomfortable Good Morning Britain interview Bristow spoke out about his string of offensive tweets for the first time. The BBC claimed today that the former darts world champion, sacked by Sky Sports yesterday, had demanded £5,000 to appear on its news channel to discuss the scandal.
Drunken bridegroom kicked and punched his new wife in bridal suite on wedding night after she told him off for being sick on the floor
Kevin Joseph McGrath (left, with his new wife) 28, had started drinking on his wedding day at 10am and became so drunk that he cannot remember anything after the wedding meal. When he and his new wife Melissa (right) returned to the White River House Hotel in Toomebridge, Co. Antrim, Mr McGrath threw up on the floor and Mrs McGrath began 'scolding' him for his behaviour. The groom, a joiner, then attacked his bride, putting his hands on her throat and causing her to feel 'very scared'. Police were then called to the hotel and Mrs McGrath was taken to hospital, while her husband was passed out in the room. She told police her husband had kicked and punched her several times before falling asleep and he was kicked out of the hotel.
Colombian crash plane 'ran out of fuel' and 'hero' pilot was NOT deliberately burning it off, say aviation experts, as it emerges goalkeeper survivor has had a leg amputated
Investigators say it is 'very suspicious' that the plane did not explode on impact as it smashed into a mountain on its way from Bolivia to the Colombian city of Medellin. A surviving flight attendant is believed to have told authorities that the plane, which was carrying 77 passengers and crew, ran out of fuel minutes before its scheduled landing at Jose Maria Cordova airport. The theory comes after claims that the pilot of the jet Miguel Alejandro Quiroga Murakami (centre) had deliberately circled before landing in a bid to burn off or dump fuel and avoid a blast on impact. Six people miraculously survived the crash (left) on Monday night, but the disaster virtually wiped out the up-and-coming Brazilian football team Chapecoense Real whose players were preparing to play in the Copa Sudamerica final - the equivalent of challenging for the Europa League title. Brazilian authorities have declared three days of mourning following the tragedy. This morning it emerged that one survivor, goalkeeper Jackson Follmann, had to have his right leg amputated while being treated at San Vicente Foundation Hospital outside Medellin. Inset: The plane’s flight path as it approached the airport.
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- Tory lead over Labour hits a seven year high of 16 points as Jeremy Corbyn's party faces a 'bleak' future
- No need for Nigel! Theresa May has a SECOND call with Donald Trump to discuss security and NATO - but there is STILL no date for face-to-face talks
- MP weeps in the Commons as she says she contemplated suicide after her eight-year-old son was killed in a road accident
- That's no joke! Comedian Eddie Izzard blew £36,000 in failed bid to stop the country voting for Brexit
KATIE HOPKINS: I came to Cuba a commie-hater ready to bury Castro, so why have I ended up praising him as a dictator whose people are in some ways freer than we are?
I came expecting to uncover the truth behind the monster Fidel Castro. To mock the liberal press sat in Islington and Brooklyn, shopping at Whole Foods, cheering a man who even in death still has his people fed from ration books, searching about for milk. To scorn the commie b*stard mentality where everyone is equal. But I have not found what I came for. I found something quite different, says KATIE HOPKINS in Havana (inset). Center, students of Havana University march in thanks for the late leader.
CCTV captures a dognapper brazenly snatching the beloved pet of a student who has its face tattooed on her leg
A veterinary student who loves her dog so much she had his face tattooed on her leg (inset), was left devastated when a brazen thief stole him in broad daylight. Abigail Box tied five-year-old Boston Terrier Ziggy outside as she ran into the Post Office in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, before a woman walked off with him. The 25-year-old (pictured with Ziggy, left) was 'heartbroken' to discover her best friend was missing and said her worst fears were brought to life as she watched CCTV footage (right) of the theft 15 minutes later. Miraculously, the pair were reunited after seven days following an anonymous tip-off - but police are still hunting the thief.
Schoolgirl, eight, gets revenge on mother who refused to buy her £70 shoes by secretly branding her a BED WETTER in her homework
Freya Cronin (left), eight, had been out shopping with her mother Maria Cronin (right, with Freya and her other two children) at Bluewater Shopping Centre, Kent, when she saw a pair of Heelys which she wanted. Ms Cronin told Freya that the shoes were too expensive, prompting Freya to call her the 'worst mother in the world'. But Freya later decided to get her revenge by secretly embarrassing her mother in her homework. The schoolgirl had been asked to write three sentences using the words 'peculiar, question and recently'. Later that evening, in her sentence using the word 'peculiar', Freya wrote: 'There was a peculiar wet patch in my mum's bed when she woke up in the morning. P.S. (it was her)' (inset).
Girl, four, died after her mother 'sedated her with heroin, methadone and ketamine that she called "smarties" so the child wouldn't disturb sex with boyfriend'
Michala Pyke, 37, (right) and John Rytting, 40, (inset) from Grimsby, allegedly gave four-year-old Poppy (left) drugs over a six-month period. The schoolgirl died in June 2013 after being found lifeless on the sofa. Tests showed the 'dance drug' ketamine, heroin and methadone - a heroin substitute - were in her system. Pyke and Rytting deny two charges of child cruelty.
Is THIS the future of shopping? eBay pop-up shop tells you which Christmas presents to buy based on your facial reactions
With just under a month to go until Christmas, shoppers can be found on high streets around the world frantically trying to stock up on presents. But there may be a less stressful way to shop this year. eBay has launched the world's first emotionally powered shop. The pop-up shop in London, called the 'The Ultimate do good, feel good Shop' allows shoppers to browse through a selection of items and discover products they genuinely want to buy.
Christmas is coming! Inside Amazon's biggest UK distribution centre the size of 14 football pitches where more than 1,000 staff plus hundreds of seasonal helpers are ready to handle as many as 64 sales a SECOND
Amazon workers navigate their way between the aisles (inset) of the retail giant's largest UK distribution centre as the Christmas shopping season gets into full swing. The centre (pictured), in Dunfermline, Fife, is packed with more than one million items being snapped up online. Hundreds of employees are responsible for finding and putting together orders before sending them to the massive on-site dispatch hall to be packaged and later sent to customers.
New documentary charts Prince Harry's 'unforgettable adventure' as he returns to the African kingdom where he set up a charity to help children living with HIV
A new documentary follows the prince's continued work in Lesotho. After he first visited the Aids-stricken southern African nation in 2004, he set up a charity called Sentebale before returning in 2014 (left) and again last year (right). The programme also captures the moment Harry was reunited with Mutsu, a local boy who was orphaned by Aids, whom the prince first met when Mutsu was four and with whom he has remained in regular contact (inset).
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Skeleton children of Mosul: Shocking images shows emaciated babies left in the rubble of the bombed-out ISIS battleground
A mother has described the heartbreak of watching her two starving sons who are 'dead already' after days without food in the ISIS-held city of Mosul in Iraq. The boys (pictured) were already emaciated when they arrived at the Hasansham refugee camp near Mosul this week and they do not seem to be responding to treatment by UNICEF, who run the camp. One of the children (inset) is aged nine, but he is so wasted away that he looks less than half his age.
WORLD NEWS
- Chapecoense's last team photo just SIX DAYS ago reveals the devastating toll of the plane crash that wiped out their squad
- Heartbreaking moment Brazilian footballer killed in Colombian jet crash found out he was to become a father... just ONE WEEK before he lost his life in plane tragedy
- Family praise 'superhero' pilot of crash jet who circled to burn fuel and save lives - as Colombian investigators find black box that could hold key to the disaster
- Revealed: Colombian crash plane's 'superhero' pilot's father was ALSO a pilot who died in a plane crash when he was just one year old
- Heartbreak in the locker room: Anguished Chapecoense players who were not on board the doomed flight with their Brazilian team-mates react with shock as they learn of Colombian plane tragedy
- 'Thank God Alan is in hospital. We are praying': Wife of Brazilian footballer who survived Colombian plane disaster reveals her relief her husband is alive
- Son of Chapecoense manager reveals he missed the doomed flight to Colombia because he FORGOT his passport
- Comedian apologises for 'sick' joke minutes after Brazilian football team plane crash, saying the survivors were calling for a penalty
- Skeleton children of Mosul: Shocking images shows emaciated babies left in the rubble of the bombed-out ISIS battleground
- Dutch parliament votes to ban the burka on public transport and in public buildings
- The great wall of New Zealand: Incredible aftermath of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that has created 15ft high natural barriers across the landscape
- Cologne police prepare giant New Year's Eve security operation featuring helicopters, mounted police and trained 'sex assault' officers following last year's gang rapes
- ISIS releases chilling video showing jihadi snipers taking out coalition targets from 1,000 yards away with frightening accuracy
- Eva PORN: Are these NAKED photographs of Hitler's mistress Eva Braun? Collector claims they show Adolf's lover frolicking at the Nazi leader's summer home
- Nazi bride who could hold key to solving murder of 'German Madeleine McCann viewed sickening child abuse and porn star pictures before torching hideout where toys were discovered'
- The world's last survivor of the 19th Century celebrates her 117th birthday in Italy and says the secret to her long life is downing raw eggs every day, just like Rocky Balboa
- Son of Pablo Escobar says the Colombian drug lord KILLED HIMSELF and was NOT shot by police during rooftop chase
- South Korean president offers to QUIT following public outrage over a corrupt 'Rasputin' confidante who wielded government power
- Kim Jong-un signs book of condolences as North Korea enters three days of mourning for 'close friend' Fidel Castro
- The world's largest land-based moving structure covers the site of the planet's worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, preventing further radiation leaks for a century
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The world's largest land-based moving structure covers the site of the planet's worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, preventing further radiation leaks for a century
The €2billion structure will allow specialist engineers to safely dismantle the failed nuclear reactor which led to the world's worst atomic accident in April 1986. The massive shield was moved over the doomed reactor on large hydraulic jacks in one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever attempted. Speaking at a special event just yards from the shield, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said: ''Let the whole world see today what Ukraine and the world can do when they unite, how we are able to protect the world from nuclear contamination and nuclear threats.'