Football team killed in a plane crash. The mystery of the death of the Pakhtakor football team: the story of one of the largest plane crashes in the USSR. Plane crashes in which athletes died

Afterwards, rescuers are working with the Brazilian football team Chapecoense on board at the scene of the tragedy, to whose aid the authorities sent the country's army. Military helicopters are helping to urgently transport plane crash survivors to hospitals.

The rescue operation at the scene of the tragedy is complicated by weather conditions and very poor visibility. There is information that the crew drained almost all the fuel during the flight - this allowed the death of all passengers.

Also, several players of the Chapecoense team managed to avoid tragedy, as they did not fly with the team to the game. Among them are midfielder Alejandro Martinucchio, defender Rafael Ramos de Lima, midfielder Odair Souza (Nenem), defender Demerson Bruno Costa, goalkeeper Marcelo Boek, midfielder Andrei Alba, midfielder Hioran Dalmoro, midfielder Ribeiro Santos Moises and goalkeeper Jose Nivaldo Martins Constante.

On this moment It is known that the list of passengers who survived the plane crash in Colombia included Alan Ruschel, who suffered a hip fracture and an open head wound, flight attendant Jimena Suarez and Chapecoense goalkeeper Danilo Marcos, who is conscious and has already contacted his relatives by phone.

It is known that the survivors of the plane crash in Colombia, defender of the Chapecoense football club Alan Ruschel and goalkeeper Marcos Danilo were sitting next to each other on board the plane.

The list of surviving passengers of the crashed liner in Colombia included the goalkeeper of the Chapecoense football club, Jackson Vollmann.

During the search operation at the crash site of a passenger plane in Colombia, another passenger was rescued. Journalist Rafael Enzel has joined the list of survivors of the plane crash in Colombia. The media representative was urgently hospitalized - he received multiple wounds and bruises, and the journalist was diagnosed with broken ribs.

Colombian police have already confirmed the deaths of 75 passengers on the crashed airliner in Colombia. The official list of survivors of the Colombia plane crash currently includes only five names:

1. Chapecoense defender Alan Ruschel
2. goalkeeper Marcos Danilo
3. goalkeeper Jackson Vollmann
4. Flight attendant Ximena Suarez
5. Brazilian journalist Rafael Enzel

Chapecoense defender Alan Ruschel, who survived the plane crash in Colombia, showed a video from the cabin of the crashed Lamia airline plane, in which he recorded moments of the flight and shared his experiences with fans about the upcoming final match in Colombia for the Copa Sudamericana. Video from the board of the crashed airliner appeared on the Internet during the technical shutdown of the aircraft in Bolivia.

Brazilian Chapecoense football player Philip José Machado, who is currently on the list of those killed in a plane crash in Colombia, also published a video from the cabin shortly before the crash of the Lamia airliner.

It should be added that the players of the Colombian Atlético Nacional team and athletes of the Argentine national team were previously transported on the crashed plane in the province of Antioquia. Latin American media claim that the albiceleste used this plane more than once.

At the same time, the British tabloid The Daily Mail claims that brazilian team Chapecoense was scheduled to fly to Medellin on a different aircraft. According to the source, local aviation authorities changed the flight plane for the athletes literally at the last moment.

Search and rescue operations at the site of the Lamia airline plane crash continue. Appeared on the Internet latest video from the scene of the tragedy. The footage clearly shows that the Ministry of Emergency Situations, with the help of representatives of the Colombian army, despite the heavy rain, are actively continuing to search for survivors and passengers of the deceased plane that crashed in Colombia.

On official page The Colombian Civil Aviation Authority has released a list of passengers who were on board the crashed Lamia airliner. It included the names and dates of birth of the football players of the Brazilian club Chapecoense and the 22 journalists accompanying them.

The published list of passengers flying on board the Lamia Airlines plane that crashed in Colombia includes the son of the ex-CSKA coach, Anderson Paixau. It is reported that he is part of the headquarters of the Chapecoense football club.

According to Argentine journalists, Chapecoense defender Helio Zampier Neto has been added to the list of surviving passengers in the plane crash in Colombia. Information about the sixth survivor of the Lamia airliner crash was also confirmed by the Colombian radio station Radio Caracol.

Chapecoense defender Helio Zampier Neto | social network

According to the latest information from RT in Russian, citing reliable sources, one of the injured passengers in the plane crash in Colombia died on the way to the hospital. This information was confirmed by the head of the police of the Colombian city of Medellin, Jose Acevedo, who did not name the deceased.

Information is being updated.

Athletes fly often - to competitions, training camps, and training. And representatives team events sports also make flights all together. Therefore, numerous cases from history modern sports, when a plane crash killed an entire sport Team, are statistically quite explainable. But this in no way diminishes the pain of family, friends and fans. Today we remember the most tragic plane crashes in the history of sports.

The death of Yaroslavl "Lokomotiv"

Yaroslavl "Lokomotiv" has not achieved much success for a decade, since the former Main coach Vladimir Vuytek left the team in 2003, having received a more lucrative offer from ex-rivals - Kazan Ak Bars. This, however, did not stop the team from starting each season with full dedication. At the start of the 2011–12 season, the team intended to follow the same course as a member of the Continental hockey league. But on September 7, 2011, during a flight to Minsk for the first game of the season, almost the entire team died in a plane crash. The Yak-42 plane, on which the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv was flying, crashed a few seconds after takeoff from the Yaroslavl Tunoshna airport. One of the team's star players was Alexander Galimov, through whose efforts the team won seven wins and two defeats in the pre-season matches. It was Galimov who scored the last goal in the Lokomotiv games before the plane crash. Galimov survived the crash, but died in hospital five days later. The remaining players, as well as the coaches and technical staff of the team, died on the spot, as did the rest of the passengers and crew members, with the exception of crew engineer Alexander Sizov. The cause of the disaster was recognized as an error by the crew, who, as it turned out, were not sufficiently prepared to fly on machines of this type.

The plane crash that changed wrestling

This plane crash resulted in serious injuries to those involved and ended two careers. However, if the injuries of those who survived had been more serious, the entire sports and entertainment industry would have changed beyond recognition. Aboard a private Cessna 310 jet from Charlotte to Wilmington, North Carolina on September 4, 1975, were promoter David Crocket and four wrestlers - Mr. Wrestling II, Bobby Bruges, Johnny Valentine and Ric Flair. The plane crash was the result of an error by the crew, who incorrectly calculated the amount of fuel. As the survivors admitted, when the plane began to fall, they were sure that this was the end. However, the crash resulted in only the pilot being killed, who died from his injuries two months later. Valentine was paralyzed and his career ended. Bruges also retired from the sport, although he retained the ability to walk. Why could this disaster change the face of the industry? The fact is that Flair and Valentine, according to legend, were the "bad guys" who feuded with Mr. Wrestling, and the industry for a long time tried to hide the truth about the disaster by not telling anyone about Mr. Wrestling's participation in that flight. He himself, fortunately, managed to support the cover legend - remaining alive and well, Mr. Wrestling entered the ring just two weeks after the accident.

Grand Torino plane crash

Italian, and perhaps world football, has never known a team with such undeniable superiority over its rivals as Grand Torino, the nickname given to the team of the Italian football club Torino in the 1940s. The team won five consecutive national cups and continued to win until a plane crash on May 4, 1949, claimed the lives of 18 players and 13 team employees. Grand Torino was a hand-picked team: the owner of the Torino club, Ferrucio Novo, was one of the first specialists in the world of sports to put the search for talent on a professional basis.
The Torino club won league titles from 1941 until 1949, with the exception of 1945-45, when the national championship was not held. In the 1949 championship, they were also considered the undisputed favorites until the day of the plane crash that occurred during the return of the players from a friendly game in Lisbon. The cause of the accident was the error of the pilot, who lost control in bad weather conditions. The National Football Federation, in the end, decided to award the team the 1949 championship title as a sign of the highest justice: after all, if that unfortunate accident had not happened, the team would undoubtedly have received it.

Busby Babes plane crash in Munich

"The Busby Babes" who came to big football from youth school The students of Manchester United head coach Matt Busby were very young - they were all barely over twenty. However, the Manchester youth team, who had played together since childhood, were a close-knit professional team, and after joining the main team they won the English Championship twice - in the 1955-56 and 1956-57 seasons. The fans adored them not only for their talent, but also for the fact that they were all students of the club, and not players bought from other clubs, which was becoming fashionable at that time. Alas, their success was interrupted by a plane crash in Munich on February 6, 1958, in which eight key team players were killed and two more were seriously injured. The plane, trying to take off during a snowstorm, barely took off from the ground and soon crashed. The disaster made such a depressing impression on the British that even the Queen expressed personal condolences not only to the relatives and friends of the victims, but also to the people of England as a whole.

American figure skating team dies in plane crash

In 1961, figure skating was at the peak of its popularity in the United States. Leader of the national team figure skating, Lawrence Owen, even appeared on the eve of the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague on the cover of the most popular Sports Illustrated magazine. Two days after the magazine was published, Owen and the rest of the national team were tragically killed in a plane crash in Brussels. The plane carrying the skaters to Europe exploded during an abnormal landing. All 72 passengers, including the national team athletes and members of their families, died instantly. The only survivor was a dog flying in the luggage compartment. The figure skating world was shocked. The World Championships in Prague were canceled after news of the disaster, and the Americans were so shocked that they lost interest in figure skating for a long time, undermined by bad memories. Even President Kennedy was so shocked that his brother, Senator Robert Kennedy, spoke to the people on his behalf with words of condolences.

Death of the "Strongest"

It was not for nothing that the Bolivian team “The Strongest” had such a self-confident name: it really long years shone in the national championship. In September 1969, the team flew to Santa Cruz for a friendly match. Having played, the “Strongest” football players flew to their homeland, the city of La Paz, on a DC-6 plane on September 26, 1969. But it was on this day that a military coup took place in the country. In the confusion, the plane with the football players mysteriously disappeared from radar and was discovered only a day later, having crashed near the village of Viloko. All passengers - 81 people - were killed, including 17 football players, the team coach and manager, and a technical employee.

Death of the Marshall University American Football Team

For the small town of Huntington, West Virginia, 1970 was marked by the success of the local Marshall University American football team, the Thundering Horde. Being a team local significance, "Horde" rarely traveled by plane, and the joint flight on November 14, 1970 was almost the first in its practice. The investigation was never able to figure out why the plane crashed. There were 37 team members on board, including 9 coaches, and a number of fans. Considering the number of deaths, this disaster is considered the largest tragedy in the history of American sports.

The death of "Pakhtakor"

Death football team"Pakhtakor" is perhaps the most famous tragedy in history Soviet sports. Tashkent Pakhtakor was one of the most successful football teams in the USSR. On August 11, 1979, the team flew on a TU-134 Minsk plane to a meeting with Dynamo Minsk. The controller noticed too late that the plane was dangerously approaching another TU-134 in the air. He gave the planes the command to disperse, but the command was not accepted by the crews - and the wing of one of the planes pierced the fuselage of the other. This caused both cars to explode in the air. All 178 passengers on both flights were killed, including 17 Pakhtakor players and coaches. According to rumors, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev flew on that day, which caused confusion on the air routes. Despite the tragedy, the surviving Pakhtakor players returned to the field just 12 days after the tragedy to continue playing in the USSR Championship, thus paying tribute to their fallen comrades.

Evansville Basketball Players Death

In 1977, the University of Evansville basketball team was preparing for a difficult start to the season. The team's main problem was the departure of coach Arad McCutchen, who had worked with the team for many years. McCutcheon was very popular in Evansville: Time magazine even called him "the pride and passion" of the local basketball team. But the Purple Aces were not going to give up, although the season started poorly: three losses to one win. However, the team members were determined when they went to play the University of Central Tennessee on December 3, 1977. The flight was delayed for several hours due to bad weather conditions. When the plane did take off from the ground, it stayed in the air for only a minute and a half, after which it crashed to the ground. Among the causes of the disaster, it was later named, in particular, overloading of the luggage compartment. 17 crew members died in the disaster. The University of Evansville later opened a "Crying Basketball" memorial in honor of the victims.

Death of the Zambian national team

The 1993 Zambian football team was considered the best in the country's history. Football has always been popular in this African country, especially during the reign of President Kenneth Kaunda, who spared no expense in its development. After Kaunda's removal, there was less money, but the national team, despite poverty, remained one of the best in Africa. However, the team had to cut back on everything, including travel costs. To fly to the World Cup qualifying match against Senegal in Dakar, the team had to rent a Zambian Air Force plane. Alas, the national air force was in a deplorable state. On April 27, 1993, during a flight, one of the plane's engines caught fire. The pilot made a fatal mistake by turning off the second engine, after which the plane completely lost control and crashed. All 18 players on board were killed.

American boxing team plane crash

As you know, the US team, among 65 countries in the world, boycotted the Moscow Olympics-80. However, the US boxing team would not have been able to take part in the event anyway. Olympic competitions due to a terrible plane crash that occurred on March 14, 1980, which claimed the lives of 14 athletes and 8 team members. The boxers were heading to a competition in Poland when their plane crashed on approach to Warsaw. A total of 87 passengers died in the disaster. Experts consider Pan American Games champion Lemuel Steeples to be the best of the crashed athletes.

Death of the "Eleven Motley"

These Dutch footballers of Surinamese origin were true humanitarians: they played in charity matches, thus raising funds to work with children from socially disadvantaged areas, involving them in sports and helping them find the right path in life. They were called "the motley eleven" - as a sign that they brought bright colors into the lives of children from the poorest families. In fact, there were more team members - only about two dozen people. The next charity match with their participation was to take place in the capital of Suriname, Paramaribo. But it did not take place: fifteen team players died in a plane crash in Paramaribo on June 7, 1989, which killed 176 passengers and crew members of a plane flying from Europe to South America. Two other members of the team, including Dutch football legend Ruud Gullit, abandoned the flight at the very last moment and were therefore saved. As it turned out later, the crash occurred due to the fact that the plane touched the top of a tree while landing at Paramaribo airport.

Hendrick Motosport team died in a plane crash

The death of a racer on the track, although rare, does happen, but the death of racers in a plane crash is an exceptional case. Meanwhile, it was exactly what happened on October 24, 2004, when 10 people from the Hendrick Motorsport team died in a plane crash, including the son of team owner Rick Hendrick, NASCAR driver Ricky Hendrick, his older brother and nieces. On this day, the team successfully took part in competitions at the Marysville speedway. The message about the disaster, which claimed the lives of 10 people, came just minutes after the news of driver Jimmie Johnson's victory on the track. The cause of the crash would later be attributed to a combination of pilot error and foggy weather difficult to fly.

Oklahoma Cowboy plane crash

In November 2011, the Oklahoma women's basketball team lost head coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna. They and two other passengers were killed when a small private plane crashed while the coach and his assistant were returning home from a trip to recruit new players for their team. Kurt Budke was considered a real father by the girls on the basketball team, and his assistant was treated like a sister. In addition to them, State Senator Olin Branstetter and his wife Paula were killed in the crash. The most incredible thing is that after five years the commission investigating the disaster was unable to establish its cause. Senator Branstetter was at the controls of the plane and did not report turbulence or other weather-related problems to controllers. The version that the senator became ill and lost control of the car was also not confirmed. No technical faults were identified either. Why the plane crashed still remains a mystery.

Death of the Oklahoma Cowboys

The long history of tragedies associated with the University of Oklahoma began in January 2001, when 10 members of the university's men's basketball team were killed in a small private plane crash. The team was returning home after a loss to the Colorado Buffaloes to regroup and get ready for their next games. But the plane's pilot became disorientated during a snowstorm, and the plane crashed to the ground. Oklahoma Cowboys players and fans still remember the fallen players and coaches with the mournful anthem "Remember the Ten." In addition, a memorial has been set up on the university grounds to honor those who died, and sports competitions are held every year in memory of those who died.

Torino were big in the 1940s Italian football. The best for that confirmation - three championship titles"Squadra Grenade" from 1946 to 1948. On May 4, 1949, Torino football players were returning from an away match with the Portuguese Benfica to Turin on a three-engine Fiat plane. The plane made an intermediate landing in Barcelona for refueling, during which the Torino players talked with the Milan players who were transferring to a flight to Madrid. The Rossoneri were the last to capture the Turin team alive.

Closer to five in the evening, when only a few kilometers remained from Turin, the airliner entered a dense strip of fog. The pilot lost orientation, the plane descended and the left wing touched the fence of the Superga Basilica located on the hill. The car spun and crashed into the ground at high speed. All 18 football players on board, including the captain of the Italian national team Valentino Mazzola, were killed in the disaster. Fate favored only one Torino player - Lauro Toma. Due to injury, he was forced to stay at home. By the way, “Torino” with its youth team retained the first place in the standings.

"Manchester United". February 6, 1958

On this fateful day, British European Airways charter flight BE609 from Belgrade to Manchester stopped to refuel in Munich. On board were 21 representatives of the English football club Manchester United, who were returning home after the second leg of the Cup quarter-final match European champions from Red Star Belgrade.

The pilots made two attempts to take off, but both times were stopped due to engine problems. However, not wanting to fall behind schedule, they decided to give it one more try. The snowfall that started couldn't stop them either. Irish striker Liam Whelan responded to the pilots' eagerness: "It may be death, but I'm ready for it."

The pilots desperately tried to lift the plane off the ground, but it, having driven its wheels into the snow porridge, continued to rush along the runway. At a speed of almost 200 km/h, the plane rammed a fence and crashed into a private house.

By luck, the residents were not injured, but of the 44 people on board the plane, 23 were killed and another 19 were injured. Manchester United lost eight players (including Liam Whelan) and three members in the disaster coaching staff. Among the survivors was Bobby Charlton, future star English football, - at the time of the accident he was thrown out of the cabin along with the seat.

"Strongest". September 26, 1969

On the evening of Friday, September 26, 1969, the Bolivian football club Strongest was returning by plane to La Paz after a friendly game. It was the best period in the history of one of the oldest football clubs Bolivia.

After several hours of flight, the Douglas crew stopped communicating. At this time, a snow front hit the Andes, and dispatchers hastened to declare an emergency. Only a day later, in the heart of the Andes, not far from the town of Viloko on the slope of Mount Choquetanga, a group of miners discovered the wreckage of the plane, and a day later a search team arrived there.

It was never possible to establish the cause of the disaster. But it is worth noting that the tragedy happened on the day when a military coup took place in the country. All 74 people on board died, 19 of them were players and coaches of the Strongest club. Five years later, the updated “Strongest” again won the Bolivian championship.

"Pakhtakor". August 11, 1979

One of the worst disasters in the history of Soviet aviation occurred in the skies over the Ukrainian Dneprodzerzhinsk on August 11, 1979. On that day, due to the fault of air traffic controllers (however, the version of a training missile hit is also tenable), two Aeroflot TU-134 passenger aircraft collided. One of the planes was flying Voronezh - Chisinau, the other - Tashkent - Minsk. The latter carried the Pakhtakor football team, popular in the USSR, for the next national championship match with Dynamo Minsk.

None of the 178 people on both planes survived. If the plane heading to Chisinau immediately disintegrated in the air, then the plane flying to Minsk, having lost its tail, part of the right wing and one of the engines, still tried to make an emergency landing, but at an altitude of 4 kilometers entered a steep dive and crashed to the ground. There were 14 players and three representatives of the coaching staff of the Tashkent Pakhtakor.

39 years ago, on August 11, 1979, there was one of the worst plane crashes in the history of the USSR: two Tu-134 passenger planes collided in the sky over Dneprodzerzhinsk. As a result, 178 people died, including 17 members football team "Pakhtakor". Air traffic controllers were found guilty of this tragedy, although the circumstances of the disaster seem too strange to many and still give rise to many versions regarding its causes.

In the 40s of the last century, it was not Juventus that was the main club in Turin, but the team of the same name with the city, which won five national titles from 1942 to 1949. And a dozen team members were national team players.

On May 4, 1949, the Italian champions were returning from a friendly match against Benfica in Portugal on a three-engine Fiat plane. The plane was forced to land in Barcelona to refuel. Here at the airport the players met their colleagues from Milan, who were flying to Madrid for a match with. They were the last to see the Turin people alive.

The plane had almost reached its arrival point, but a few kilometers before Turin it entered a dense fog. The pilot became disorientated, but decided to land the plane based on his own instincts. Having descended, the plane caught the fence of the Basilica of Superga with its left wing, instantly lost control and crashed into the ground at high speed.

At that time, there were 18 team members on board the plane, led by team captain Valentino Mazzola, several journalists, officials and English coach Leslie Livesey. The only player missing was Lauro Tom, who remained at home due to injury.

None of those on the plane survived.

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The Busby Babes are a legendary Manchester United squad led by a great coach. A year before the disaster, the team became the champion of England and was the first to take part in the European Champions Cup.

On that fateful day, February 6, 1958, the team was returning from a Champions Cup quarter-final match against Red Star Belgrade on a British Airways charter flight from Belgrade to Manchester. Refueling was required, and the pilot decided to carry it out at Munich airport.

While trying to take off, the plane unexpectedly developed engine problems, however, not wanting to fall behind schedule, the pilots decided to try again. The snow stuck on the runway did not allow the plane to gain the required altitude, and, despite a desperate attempt to lift the ship off the ground, the pilots were unable to gain the required altitude - at a speed of 200 km/h, the plane broke through the airport fence and crashed into a neighboring house.

None of the residents of the house were injured, but of the 44 people on board, 23 were killed and another 19 were injured. For three members of the coaching staff and seven football players, this flight was the last.

Among the survivors was the later English football legend, world champion and winner of the 1966 Ballon d'Or.

Denmark second team

Eight football players from the second Danish national team died in a plane crash upon landing at the airport in the small Danish city of Oresund, near Copenhagen. They were flying to prepare national team to the Olympic football tournament in Rome.

Despite what happened, the Danish Football Union decided not to refuse to participate in the tournament.

"Green Cross"

The entire team of the first division of the Chilean championship crashed in the Cordillera when returning from Osorio. 24 people died.

"Strongest"

The most popular club crashed in the Andes on September 26, 1969, while returning to La Paz. 19 players and club managers were killed.

Air Liquid

The entire team, flying to a friendly match in Spain, died in a plane crash.

"Pakhtakor"

Perhaps one of the most famous and terrible disasters in the history of Soviet aviation. On that fateful day, two Tu-134 passenger planes collided over Dneprodzerzhinsk due to the fault of air traffic controllers. There is also a version about a training missile hit.

Pakhtakor football players were flying on a regular flight from Tashkent to Minsk for a match with local Dynamo. The second aircraft was flying Voronezh - Chisinau.

The airliners collided in the air. The plane carrying the crew lost its tail, part of its right wing and one of its engines. The pilot tried to make an emergency landing, but at an altitude of 4000 m he entered a steep dive and crashed to the ground.

"Alianza Lima"

A plane carrying 43 players, team managers and fans while returning home after a Chilean championship match crashed into the sea 6 miles north of the country's capital, Lima.

Zambia national team

In April 1993, the Zambian national team flew to a qualifying match for the World Cup against the Senegal team. The plane crashed into the sea off the coast of Gabon.

Chapecoense

On November 29, a plane carrying the Brazilian football team Chapecoense crashed in Colombia on their way to the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana against the local Atlético Nacional. The cause of the accident was a collision with a rock. There were 27 club players on board, and in total there were 81 people on the plane.

As of 16:00 Moscow time, the number of victims was 76 people.

The head of Brazil expressed his condolences to the President Russian Federation, reports the official website of the Kremlin.

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