Colombia plane crash: Chapecoense player Helio Neto found alive after six hours

By Megan Levy
Updated December 6 2016 - 10:08am, first published November 30 2016 - 12:18pm
Chapecoense player Alan Ruschel is treated at hospital after surviving the plane crash.  Photo: EPA
Chapecoense player Alan Ruschel is treated at hospital after surviving the plane crash. Photo: EPA

Rescuers searching through the wreckage of a charter plane that crashed into a mountain in Colombia had all but given up hope of finding any survivors when, almost six hours after the devastating impact, a police officer heard moans coming from the twisted fuselage.

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