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Widow of Chapecoense's Cleber Santana got airplane tattoo last month

The widow of deceased Chapecoense player Cleber Santana said she and several other player wives had identical tattoos of an airplane tracing a heart done on their left shoulders last month in preparation for a Dec. 9 vacation to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Rosangela Loureiro posted pictures of herself on Instagram last month sporting the small heart tattoo with the airplane.

She told Brazil media on Thursday that wives or girlfriends of 12 other couples, including Thiago, Luis Silvinho, Felipe Machado and Kempes, had either done the same tattoo or had been in the process of having it done.

"We had all promised to get the same tattoo, a heart and an airplane," said Loureiro, who was the first to get hers done. "We were a group of 13 couples with plans to travel together to Punta Cana on Dec. 9. And we all agreed to tattoo ourselves here [left shoulder] with a heart, a heart with an airplane going round it.

"Look at the airplane. We did not know that any of this would happen and we drew the airplane to represent our trip."

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The chartered plane carrying Chapecoense players crashed Monday en route to Medellin, Colombia, for the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final, killing 71 people and leaving six survivors.

Among the 19 deceased players was Santana, who had tenures at some of Brazilian football's biggest clubs and in Europe, including a stint at Atletico Madrid. Santana was also Chapecoense's captain.

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