Which football team crashed today. The most famous plane crashes that claimed the lives of entire sports teams. What they say at the scene

Names of the victims and survivors of Chapecoense on the Colombia plane VIDEO

The crashed plane was flying from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Medellin with 77 people on board, instead of the expected 81: 4 of them refused to fly on this flight. Among others, members of the Brazilian football team Chapecoense were on board. According to official data, six managed to survive.

The aircraft belonged to Bron and was registered as CP2933 RJ 80, which carried 68 passengers and nine crew members. The airliner lost contact with the control tower of Maria Cordova International Airport in Medellin (Rionegro) while flying over the cities of La Cieja and Abejorral,

Six managed to survive, here are their names:
Alan Ruschel, central defender
Danilo Marcos, goalkeeper
Jackson Folman, goalkeeper
Jimena Suarez, flight attendant
Rafael Enzel, Brazilian journalist
The sixth survivor is Helio Hermito Zampier, known by the nickname Neto, the defender.

The names of nine players from the Brazilian club Chapecoense who died in a plane crash in Colombia.

Alejandro Martinuccio, midfielder
Rafael Ramos de Lima, center of defense
Odair Sauza, also known as Nemen, midfielder
Demerson Bruno Costa, center back
Marcelo Boeck, goalkeeper
Andrey Alba, forward
Hayoran Keio Delmoreo, forward
Moises Ribeiro Santos, defense
Jose Nivado Martins, goalkeeper.

Causes of the tragedy

The exact cause and outcome of the accident have not yet been determined, but it is known that the aircraft declared an emergency on board, reporting an “electrical fault.” One version suggests the reason is fuel consumption.

Brazilian footballer Alan Luciano Ruschel, a member of the crashed Chapecoense club team after a plane crash in the Antioquia region (Colombia)
A victim of the Chapecoense plane crash tells how he managed to survive: “I survived because I followed the safety rules,” were the words of Erwin Tumiri, a survivor of the air tragedy.

Tumiri, a technician on the plane carrying the Brazilian soccer team that crashed Tuesday in Medellin, Colombia, just before the final game against Atlético Nacional, speaks of his rescue:

“In that situation, many people rose from their seats and started screaming. I placed the bags between my legs to form into the fetal position recommended in extreme situations,” said the Bolivian technician.
Tumiri's wife, flight attendant Jimena Suarez, also survived along with 5 other people. The remaining 77 passengers died as a result of the accident. Data provided by Colombian police.

Chapecoense players who did not travel on this tragic flight VIDEO

Year: 1949

Dead: 31 people

Survivors: No

In the forties, the Turin Bulls were the strongest club in Italy and one of the strongest in Europe. From 1942 to 1949, Grande Torino was the undisputed champion of Serie A, if you do not take into account the 1944 tournament, which was not recognized as official. At the time of the tragedy, 10 players of the national team were playing in the “burgundy” team, including the captain of the “Azzurra squad” V. Mazzola.

On May 4, 1949, the team was returning home after a friendly game with Benfica, which took place in the capital of Portugal. The plane with the players on board, after taking off from Lisbon, landed in Barcelona to replenish its fuel supply. In the capital of Catalonia, Torino players met with Milan players who were heading to Madrid, and as it turned out later, the Rossoneri representatives were the last to see the Burgundy ones alive. On approach to the destination, due to increased fog, the pilot lost control of the aircraft and descended below the permissible limit, which is why the left wing touched the basilica built on a hill. As a result of this contact, the plane spun and crashed into the ground at high speed. Of the 28 passengers (18 football players) and 4 crew members, none survived.

This tragedy had a great impact on italian football. It took the Italian national team almost two decades to return to the elite of European football, and Torino forever lost its status as a top club.

"Manchester United"

Year: 1958

Dead: 23 people

Survivors: 21 people

Having won the English Championship in 1956, Manchester United, with the help of their mentor Matt Busby, achieved permission to participate in the Champions Cup and became the first English club who played in the main European Cup. In the 1956/57 season, the Mancunians reached the semi-finals in the Championship, and again won gold in the English Championship. The next season also started successfully for Manchester United. Busby's team was in a leading position in the domestic championship, and reached the quarterfinals in the CC.

In the quarter finals of CC 57/58, Manchester United had to play a two-game duel with Red Star. The first meeting took place on January 14 in England and the Mancunians won it with a score of 2:1. The return game took place on February 5 in Belgrade and the match ended in a high-scoring draw with a score of 3:3, which took Busby's men to the second Champions League semi-final in a row.

Returning from Belgrade, the plane with the crew on board landed in Munich for refueling. Having replenished fuel supplies, the plane was supposed to immediately fly to Manchester, but the takeoff was canceled due to engine problems. By that time, heavy snow had fallen and visibility had decreased, but the ship's commander decided to make another takeoff attempt, despite the existing problems. Having reached the runway, the plane with Manchester United on board accelerated to a speed of 217 km/h, at which it was no longer possible to cancel the takeoff, but the pilots were unable to lift the car into the air. Having left the runway, the plane rammed the runway fence at high speed and crashed into a residential building. The crash killed 8 football players, three members coaching staff and ten other passengers. Among the survivors were club coach Busby and striker Bobby Charlton, as well as other football players.

Despite the death of eight players and injuries received by the rest of the team, Manchester United was able to finish the season and took second place in the English Championship, and the Mancunians lost to Milan in the semi-finals of the Championship. 10 years after the tragedy in Munich, Busby will lead Manchester United to their first European club champion title, and Charlton, playing under his leadership, will receive the Golden Ball.

Danish Olympic team

Year: 1960

Dead: 23 people

Survivors: 21 people

In 1960, summer events were held in Rome Olympic Games, and the Danish team was one of the participants in the Olympic football tournament. On July 16, eight members of the Danish Olympic team took off from Copenhagen in a small Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide, flown by 27-year-old pilot Stig Vindelev. A few minutes after takeoff, the pilot lost the horizon in poor visibility conditions and the plane crashed into the water 50 meters from the shore near the city of Oresund.

Among the survivors were only pilot Vindelev and 21-year-old goalkeeper Per Funk Jensen, but the latter died on the way to the hospital. As a result of the disaster, Vindelev lost his leg and never sat at the controls of an airplane again, becoming a physics teacher and inventor.

Immediately after the plane crash, the Danish Football Association decided to withdraw its team from the 1960 Olympic Games, but then this decision was reversed and the Danish team won silver at the Olympics.

Year: 1961

Dead: 24 people

Survivors: No

In the spring of 1961, Chilean football lost the Green Cross team. On April 3, a Douglas C 47A carrying the club's football players and coaches took off from the city of Castro for Santiago, crashed in the Cordillera, killing all 24 people on board. The wreckage of the plane that crashed in Chile was found only in 2015. The search expedition discovered only part of the plane, which by that time was covered with a layer of earth and was not visible from the air.

Year: 1969

Dead: 74 people

Survivors: No

In 1969, the Bolivian club Strongest was returning to La Paz from the city of Santa Cruz, where an international friendly tournament was taking place. The team was on board a Douglas DC-6B aircraft, which, including the players and coaches, carried 69 passengers. On September 26 at 14:10 local time, despite heavy snowfall, the plane left Santa Cruz airport and headed towards the Andes. 2 hours and 20 minutes after takeoff, the plane stopped communicating, after which a search operation was announced. The wreckage of the plane was discovered on the same day by a group of miners from the small village of Violko and a rescue team headed to the crash site. Upon arrival, rescuers discovered that of the 74 people on board, there were no survivors.

Based on the results of the examination, it was determined that the cause of the tragedy could have been a fire. The pilots tried to make an emergency landing, but due to poor visibility caused by smoke and heavy snowfall, they crashed into the side of a mountain.

Some plane crashes have gone down in sports history forever because famous athletes were on board the planes that crashed. Dni.Ru remembers the most terrible crashes, the victims of which were famous sports teams.

In the middle of the last century, the Torino football club was a strong competitor to its fellow countrymen from the Juventus team. At the time of the tragedy, he was leading the Italian championship with a four-point lead over his closest rival. The plane crash happened when the Torino players were returning home from Portugal after losing to Benfica in Lisbon with a score of 3:4. On board the Fiat G 212CP were 18 team members, as well as the club management and several journalists - a total of 31 people.

The plane crashed near the airport in Torino. Due to heavy fog, the flight crew lost orientation in space. The aircraft turned sharply and quickly crashed. All passengers and crew on board were killed. Of the entire team, only Lauro Toma remained alive at that time. He was lucky: due to an earlier injury, he avoided a terrible fate by not flying to the match in Lisbon.

The burnt bodies of the victims were placed in the morgue of a Turin hospital. Relatives of the victims were not involved in the painful identification procedure, so as not to be traumatized by the sight of mutilated remains. I took on this heavy burden former coach"Torino" by Vittorio Pozzo.

A British European Airways plane carrying players from the English team Manchester United crashed at Munich Airport more than half a century ago. On board were the club's players, several coaches, fans and journalists. Of the 44 people, 23 died. 19 wounded were taken to a Munich hospital.

The disaster happened when the team was flying from Belgrade after a match with the local Red Star in the Champions League. The airliner refueled en route in Munich. When he attempted to take off, vibrations in the left engine prevented him from doing so. The pilots made a second attempt to take off, but it was also unsuccessful. When the plane took off for the third time, heavy snow began to fall. The aircraft lost speed, crashed through a fence at the end of the runway and crashed with its left wing into a nearby house.

21 people on board died instantly, the rest lost consciousness. After investigating all the circumstances, the pilot was named as the culprit of the crash. However, ten years later it was possible to establish that the real cause of the disaster was snowfall, due to which the plane’s speed dropped sharply and it was unable to take off. As a result, the pilot was acquitted.

18 of the best US figure skaters flew from J. Kennedy Airport to Brussels - the athletes had to transfer to another flight to Prague. The team was scheduled to perform at the World Championships in the capital of Czechoslovakia. But a few hours later, a brand new Boeing 707 carrying the athletes and their relatives crashed in a wooded area near the village of Berg, not far from the Belgian capital. All 72 people on board, as well as one person on the ground, were killed.

Among the victims of the crash were Team USA coach Maribel Vinson-Owen and her daughters Laurence and Marybel, members of the USA national team. figure skating. Immediately after the tragic news, the 1961 World Championships in Prague were canceled, and new champion skaters appeared in the United States only in 1968.

During the investigation into the cause of the crash, no signs of problems were found on board. Why, at an altitude of less than 300 meters, the Boeing engines suddenly increased power and the already extended landing gear “retracted” back still remains a mystery.

On a hot summer day, Tashkent football players flew to Minsk to play a USSR championship match with the local club Dynamo. By tragic accident, over Dneprodzerzhinsk at an altitude of eight and a half thousand meters, a Tu-134 collided with another similar airliner. All 178 people on both planes were killed. Among the victims of the plane crash were 17 football players of the Pakhtakor team.

After the tragedy, the leadership of the USSR decided to leave the club in the country's Major Football League for three years, regardless of the results of its performances at the championships.

The hockey team from Yaroslavl in full force flew from Tunoshna airport to Minsk, where they were supposed to play their first Continental match of the 2011-2012 season hockey league with local Dynamo.

The plane had difficulty gaining altitude. It crashed into the antenna of a lighthouse located behind the runway and crashed near the airport. There were 45 people on board the airliner. After the disaster, only crew member Alexander Sizov and hockey player Alexander Galimov survived. Doctors fought with all their might for the athlete’s life, but due to terrible injuries, incompatible with life, he died a few days later.

After investigating the circumstances of the crash, the IAC came to the conclusion that the immediate cause of the tragedy was involuntary pressing of the brake pedals during the take-off run of the plane. However, the commission was unable to establish who exactly made the fatal mistake.

Let us recall that it was previously reported that a British Aerospace Avro RJ85 plane belonging to the Bolivian airline LAMIA crashed in the Colombian province of Antioquia. The liner, which had 81 people on board, was traveling from Sao Paulo to Medellin.

On this moment all injured passengers were urgently hospitalized, reports 360 Radio Colombia. According to Dni.Ru, the bodies of 25 people were found at the crash site. According to Colombian media, ten to 15 people survived the crash of a passenger plane in the province of Antioquia. Among them are flight attendant Ximena Suarez, a sports massage therapist, as well as players from the Brazilian football club Alan Ruschel, Marcos Danilo and Jackson Vollmann.

Happened today in Colombia terrible tragedy. A plane carrying a Brazilian football team crashed near the city of Medellin. "SE" recalls other crashes of planes on board sports teams.

Disaster site: over the English Channel

Team: Czechoslovakia national ice hockey team

In the first post-war years, the Czechoslovakian national team was the strongest team in Europe. From 1947 to 1949, the Slavs won two world championship gold medals and once remained in second place, losing only to the Canadians on goal difference.

That great team became the first sports team to be involved in a plane crash. On November 18, 1948, six leading players of the Czechoslovak national team were flying to a friendly match in London when their plane crashed into the English Channel for an unknown reason. No one managed to escape.

Even after such terrible losses, the Czechoslovakians were able to win the 1949 World Cup and dedicated this victory to the memory of those killed.

Place of death of "Torino". Photo by FIFA, SE

Disaster site: Hill of Superga (Turin)

From 1942 to 1949, the “bulls” had no equal in the Apennines. They won the Scudetto five times and became the first team to win the championship and the Cup in the same season. 10 players from that Torino regularly played for the Italian national team. Most shining moment in the history of the club ended in a terrible tragedy.

On May 4, 1949, the Turin team returned home from Portugal, where they played a friendly match with. On the way to Turin, a plane with 18 football players led by the famous Valentino Mazzola, the club's management and three journalists from leading Italian newspapers sat down in Barcelona to refuel. At the airport, the “bulls” met rival friends who were flying to Madrid for a game with. The Rossoneri were the last to see the Torino champions alive...

That evening there was heavy fog over Turin. The pilot landed, guided by his own instincts, and his wing touched the fence of the Basilica of Superga, which towered above the city. The plane instantly lost control and crashed into the ground at full speed. Everyone on board died...

Disaster site: Koltsovo airport (Sverdlovsk)

Team: HC Air Force MVO

The first Soviet superclub was created Vasily Stalin- He gathered the strongest football, hockey, basketball and volleyball players into his beloved Air Force. At the very end of 1949, the composition of the “pilots” was strengthened by itself.

Later, the famous athlete will begin his memoirs with a description of the plane crash in which he crashed. hockey team Air Force. According to Bobrov, he overslept the flight, and the team flew to Chelyabinsk without him - the alarm clock not ringing saved the striker’s life.

On that day there was a severe snowstorm over the Urals, the plane with the hockey players could not land in Chelyabinsk - it was sent to wait out the bad weather in Sverdlovsk. However, the weather conditions there were unusually difficult. The pilot made three landing approaches but was unable to find the runway. LI-2 crashed into a field near the airport.

The plane on which the famous Busby Babes crashed.

Disaster site: Munich Airport

Young team Matt Busby became the first English club to take part in the Cup European champions. In order to fit into the tight schedule of matches of the English Championship and the European Cup, Manchester United had to constantly fly on planes, which in those days were far from perfect. Fatal for the Mancunians was the departure to the quarter-final match of the Champions Cup against. Busby's team drew in Belgrade and secured their place in the semi-finals. On the way back, the plane landed in Munich to refuel.

When it was time to continue the flight, due to snow stuck on the runway, the plane was unable to gain the required speed, broke through the airport fence and crashed into a neighboring house. Of the forty people on board, 19 died, including seven players and three Manchester United coaches...

Place: Brussels

Team: US Figure Skating Team

At the end of February 1961, the World Figure Skating Championships were to be held in Prague. Team USA I went on a regular regular flight with a transfer in Brussels. This was the first flight for the brand new Boeing 707. The plane was unable to land in the capital of Belgium on the first try and went for a second round, but then something inexplicable happened - the car went into a dive and crashed into a swamp near Brussels airport. All 72 people on board were killed, including 18 skaters and five coaches. Because of this tragedy, the World Cup was cancelled.

Memorial in memory of the fallen players and employees of Pakhtakor.

Place: above Dneprodzerzhinsk

The most famous disaster in the history of the USSR involving a football club happened in August 1979 in the skies over Dneprodzerzhinsk. Pakhtakor players flew on a regular flight from Tashkent to Belarus for the game with Minsk. Due to a dispatcher error, this aircraft collided with another aircraft flying along the route Chelyabinsk - Voronezh - Chisinau. The disaster killed 178 people, including 14 players, a second coach, an administrator and a doctor.

A 1987 magazine about the tragedy that happened to the plane on which the Alliance was flying.

Disaster site: Lima

In the history of one of the most famous Peruvian teams, "Alianza", there is a dark day - December 7, 1987. The team was returning home after another national championship match, but the liner, which contained 43 people - football players, coaches, staff - collapsed during landing and crashed into the sea. Only one person miraculously survived - the pilot of the plane.

Place: 500 meters from the coast of Libreville

At the end of the 80s, the first foreign players appeared in the USSR football championship. Among the foreign guests was a trio from Zambia, who performed for "Pamir" - Derby Makinka, Wisdom Chansa And Pearson Mwanza. The Africans played only a few matches for the team from Dushanbe, but managed to make history.
Four years later, Makina and Chansa, along with other Zambian national team players, died in a plane crash. The plane of this team flew to Senegal for the 1994 World Cup qualifying match. According to the flight plan, three refueling landings were planned. After the first landing in Brazzaville, problems were discovered with the left engine, but the pilot decided to continue the flight.

The Zambians successfully landed and refueled in Libreville, but during takeoff the faulty engine caught fire. The commander of the aircraft, succumbing to panic, turned off the second engine, and the plane crashed into the sea. All 30 people on board were killed.

Memorial in memory of the Lokomotiv players who crashed in a plane crash. Photo photo.khl.ru

Place: Tunoshna airport (Yaroslavl)

The beginning of the 2011/12 season turned into a nightmare for the entire KHL. The league lost one of its strongest teams overnight. Yaroslavl "Lokomotiv" went on the first trip of the season to Minsk on a Yak-42 plane. However, during takeoff, the plane rolled off the runway and was unable to gain the desired height and collided with a radio beacon. The car crashed into the ground near the bank of the Tunoshonka River and exploded. 43 people died instantly. The striker was hospitalized with severe burns. For five days the doctors fought for his life, but they could not save him. Only one person survived the crash - the flight engineer. Alexander Sizov.

On September 7, 2011, a Yak-42 aircraft of Yak Service airlines crashed during takeoff from Tunoshna airport in the Yaroslavl region. On board the plane was the hockey team "Lokomotiv" (Yaroslavl), which was flying to a match in Minsk. According to preliminary data, there were people on board.

July 15, 2009 In the north-west of Iran, a Tu-154M plane of the Iranian airline Caspian Airlines crashed while flying from Tehran to Yerevan. On board the plane was the Iranian youth judo team. The athletes flew to Armenia for training and then had to fly to Hungary to participate in competitions. All 168 people on this flight died.

August 24, 2008 A Boeing 737 plane, en route from Bishkek to Tehran, crashed in Kyrgyzstan. There were 90 people on board the plane, including 17 members of the Iranian youth volleyball team. Ten of them died. 25 passengers and crew members managed to escape.

April 27, 1993 Not far from Gabon (Africa), a DHC-5 Buffalo plane carrying members of the Zambian football team crashed into the sea as a result of engine failure. A total of 30 people died, including 18 football players.

June 7, 1989 At the airport of the capital of Suriname, Paramaribo (South America), a DC-8-60 series plane crashed, resulting in the death of 23 Dutch football players of Surinamese origin who were on board the crashed plane. A total of 176 people (out of 187 passengers and crew) were killed.

December 8, 1987 near the city of Lima (Peru), the entire Allianz football team was killed as a result of explosions on board an F‑27 aircraft. The bodies of the victims could not be found because the plane crashed into the sea. It is known that there were 43 people on the plane.

March 14, 1980 In the plane crash of a Polish IL-62 plane near Warsaw (Poland), 22 members of the US national boxing team were killed.

August 11, 1979 over the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk (Ukraine), a Tu-134 plane flying from Tashkent to Minsk collided with a plane flying from Chelyabinsk to Chisinau. 178 people died (165 passengers and 13 crew members), from Uzbekistan, which was competing in the major league. The team flew to Minsk to play with local Dynamo.

November 29, 1975 Formula 1 racing team Embassy Racing with Graham Hill, pilot Graham Hill, died in a plane crash. The six-seater Piper Aztec plane, on which the team was returning from racing in France to London, crashed and burned during landing.

October 13, 1972 In the Andes, on the way to the capital of Chile, Santiago, part of the rugby team from Montevideo (Uruguay) died in a plane crash.

In total, there were 45 people on board the FH-227 aircraft, 16 of whom survived.

December 31, 1970 In a plane crash, the entire amateur football team from Algeria, Air Liquid, was killed on its way to a friendly match in Spain.

November 14, 1970 In Virginia (USA), 37 players of the Marshall University (Huntington, West Virginia) American football team died in a plane crash. In addition to the athletes, there were members of the coaching staff, fans, and the head of the sports department on board the plane (75 people in total). No one survived.

April 1, 1970 An An-24 passenger plane crashed near Krasnoyarsk. All passengers (including the youth volleyball team) and crew members were killed.

September 26, 1969 In the Andes, on the way to La Paz (Bolivia), a plane carrying 25 players from the Bolivian football team Strongest crashed. 19 football players and club leaders were killed.

April 3, 1961 A Douglas C‑47A plane crashed in the Cordilleras (Chile). As a result of the disaster, everyone on board died - the Chilean football team "Green Cross" and crew members (24 people).

February 15, 1961 While landing in Belgium, a Sabena Boeing 707 crashed while flying on the New York-Brussels route. All 72 people on board, as well as one person on the ground, were killed. The disaster killed the US figure skating team (34 athletes and coaches), which was heading to the World Championships in Prague (Czechoslovakia). The 1961 World Figure Skating Championships were canceled as a sign of mourning for the victims.

February 6, 1958 At Munich Airport (Germany), a plane carrying football players from the English team Manchester United crashed while trying to take off. A total of 23 people on board died, including 8 athletes, a coach, a team secretary, one of the directors of Manchester United and eight sports correspondents.

January 5, 1950 During the third approach in difficult weather conditions, a Li-2 plane crashed in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). 8 hockey players of the USSR Air Force team died, as well as a coach, doctor and massage therapist.

May 4, 1949 As a result of a plane crash near Turin (Italy), the entire team of the Torino football club and everyone else on board the plane (including journalists, officials, and coach) were killed. A total of 31 people died.

November 18, 1948 In a plane crash over the English Channel, 6 leading hockey players of the Czechoslovak national team (goalkeeper, defenders and forwards) were killed.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources