Football team plane 'found' 50 years after crash

Mountaineers in Chile say they have discovered the wreckage of a plane that went missing more than 50 years ago.

Twenty four people died when the aircraft disappeared in 1961 - among them eight players for what was then one of Chile's top football teams.

The Douglas DC-3 carrying the Green Cross players went down as they returned to Santiago from an away match in the south.

A team of experienced climbers found the crash site in an undisclosed destination 200 miles from the capital Santiago.

Expedition member Leonardo Albornoz said: “The plane is more 10,000ft above sea level. A large part of the fuselage is still intact and a lot of material including human bones are scattered around the wreck.”