Chapecoense, a men’s Brazilian soccer team was aboard a charter flight holding 81 passengers, 75 of which died.  All but three men who boarded the flight were killed, leaving shock and horror in a time that should have been spent preparing for the team’s biggest game in its history.

To date, the cause of the crash has not been disclosed, but it is under investigation as to what caused the total electrical failure. Early reports from the flight attendant as well as another survivor are that the plane ran out of fuel.  Audio from the minutes leading up to the crash suggest this is the case, as the plane began a tailspin to the eventual crash into the Colombian mountainside.

This was the first championship match for this team in its existence, and their hometown was riding the highest of highs. With one horrid accident, their glory became disbelief.  From waiting to hear of the team’s performance on the pitch, their friends and family waited to hear how many lived.

Among the sadness surrounding the soccer team was the loss of another newly expecting father.  Tiaguinho, 22 years old, found out days before the flight that he would be expecting a baby.  Again, as the Jose Fernandez story leaves a baby without a father, this new baby must endure the same pain.  The wife of the late soccer star will raise her new baby alone in the wake of this tragedy.

Send prayers to not only a country in mourning, but to this baby that will forever know her daddy dying because of a miscalculation, if in fact that was the cause.