Brazilian team The Chapecoense was heading to Medellin for the first final match South American Cup vs. Colombian Atlético Nacional. For the not very bright Chapecoense, the game could become truly historical. But already on the approach to Medellin, the crew reported malfunctions in electrical equipment. Airplane .
Juan Carlos de la Cuesta, President of Club Atletico Nacional: “We condole. We grieve deeply. We are in real pain. At this moment our hearts are with the Shapikoense club, with the families of its players, staff and management. "
Unfortunately, Shapikoense is far from the only sports team that died in a plane crash almost full complement... In 58th the world was shocked by the tragedy of Manchester United. And in the Soviet Union in 79th the Tashkent football team"Pakhtakor". Tu-134, flying to Minsk for the next championship match, collided with another passenger plane in the sky due to an error of dispatchers. The tragedy claimed 178 lives.
Real Madrid honored the memory of the Brazilian Chapecoense with a minute of silence. And the fans of Atletico Nacional, who were preparing to cheer against the Brazilians, are now ready to dress themselves in the colors of failed rivals.
According to media reports,. The team was going to arrive in Medellin by charter, but then the plans changed. The nine players of the team have every reason to celebrate their second birthday on November 29. And the son of the head coach did not get on the fatal flight, having forgotten his passport at home.
Three days of mourning has been declared in Brazil. Medellin Atletico Nacional proposed to declare Chapecoense the winner of the South American Cup, notes NTV correspondent Garry Knyagnitsky.
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The plane with 72 passengers, including football players of the Brazilian club "Chapecoense", crashed in Colombia. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Univision TV channel.
According to the TV channel, in addition to 72 passengers, there were 9 crew members on board.
Reuters reported 76 people were killed in the Lamia plane crash in Colombia. Thus, 5 people survived in the plane crash.
Among them are a flight attendant, Chapecoense goalkeeper Danilo, team defender Alan Roshal and a masseur. Alan Roshal has a fractured hip and an open head wound.
Earlier it was reported about 15 survivors, but this information has not been confirmed.
360 Radio Colombia, citing a police spokesman for the Colombian city of Medellin, reports that search and rescue operations have been suspended due to the fact that there are no more survivors at the scene of the accident. Up to 500 people took part in the rescue work, including the military and members of the national police.
The mayor of the neighboring town of La Seja named three possible reasons for the plane crash, among them - a lack of fuel, technical problems with the plane and weather conditions.
Earlier it was reported that the crew signaled a low fuel level. The pilots of the plane crashed in Colombia at 22:00 local time sent emergency messages about problems in the electrical on board. About an hour later, the liner crashed.
It also became known that the Chapecoense players changed their aircraft right before the flight and boarded the ill-fated liner. According to El Tiempo, representatives of the Brazilian aviation forced the players to transfer to the board, which subsequently crashed.
The athletes were scheduled to arrive at the hotel this morning and start training at the Attanasio Girardot Stadium to take part in the first Copa Sudamericana final match.
It is reported that the crashed plane previously transported the players of the Argentine national team and the Colombian team Atletico Nacional. The president of the latter, Juan Carlos de la Cuesta, claims that his players have flown this liner even more than once.
A photo appeared on Twitter of a local edition, where the wreckage of the liner is clearly visible. Judging by the picture, the aircraft's hull received significant damage from the impact on the ground, while its debris did not scatter for any significant distance.
The media reported that the Chapecoense footballers managed to take a selfie with the pilot of the liner that crashed over Colombia. Presumably, one of the players sent a photo to his girlfriend shortly before takeoff or during a stopover in Bolivia.
In connection with the plane crash, the Brazilian Football Federation decided to postpone the final matches indefinitely. At the moment, an option is being considered, in which Chapecoense and Nacional will put up their youth squads for the games.
Famous footballers, including Galatasaray player Lucas Podolski and Real Madrid midfielder Lucas Silva, spoke about the tragedy. The German striker called for prayers for those killed in the plane crash.
The footballers were heading to the Colombian city of Medellin to participate in the South American Cup match.
Colombian authorities confirm that a plane carrying a football team crashed in the province of Antioquia in the La Union area. According to the radio station 360 Radio Colombia, the rescue service has now left for the crash site.
Also, according to the radio station, the crew members of the plane crashed in Colombia gave a signal that the fuel level was low. It is reported that the pilots were going to urgently land at a nearby airport, but the liner crashed.
Socker.ru wishes courage to survivors of a plane crash with a Brazilian club on board, and pay tribute to the players different eras... Football players from England, Italy and the USSR are associated with terrible crashes, and Messi flew in a crashed plane this month.
Aerophobia is a common fear, even if the probability of dying in a plane crash is sixty times lower than being injured while crossing the road or in a car. But who needs numbers when the fear of death is in the foreground? Yes, only one in a million air passengers can be involved in a crash, and in most cases, you need to be on board an old ship over Africa. but every such tragedy is perceived very painfully.
Unfortunately, road accidents happen every day. Thousands of people are killed and maimed. Plane crashes are less frequent, and the world's attention is riveted to them. Now, unfortunately, there is one more reason to set the number one task to all aircraft designers in the world - to ensure a safe landing for the aircraft even in the event of engine failure and to simplify their work for pilots, and to automate risk assessment. And for football, this issue is important, because flights are an everyday part of the work of all clubs. Let's remember today those who were unlucky and who managed to survive.
According to estimates of the mid-forties, that is, immediately after the war, there were 27 disaster victims for every million passengers. Much more than now. Then there were fewer flights, and the planes were different. The great composition of "Torino" - four-time champions of Italy, died, because in the fog the pilot could not understand at what height they flew. We touched the fence of the Superga Basilica on the hill with a wing, which led to the tragedy. On board were famous footballers(including the father of Sandro Mazzola - the future legend of "Inter"), journalists, coaches, administrators and a fan of "Torino" who hurried home to his sick wife and begged the stewardess.
All died, the great coach Pozzo identified the remains, not allowing the relatives of the victims, so as not to injure them. And one of the Torino players did not fly from Lisbon (played against Benfica) to Turin due to injury. Lauro Toma was lucky, he, together with the players of the youth teams "Torino", eventually became the champion of Italy. The three rivals remaining until the end of the season, as a sign of respect, fielded the youth team... But since the champions were killed, that title turned out to be the penultimate title in the history of the club. Hopefully italian football will never survive like this. Everyone is equally sorry, but the legends were unlucky here. Last year, FIFA declared May 4 "Calcho Day" to commemorate the terrible incident.
The most famous plane crash in the history of football. Films have been made, including the 2011 sports drama United with David Tennant, and historical investigations have been carried out. Often, victims are remembered who cannot be returned, but must not be forgotten. The plane was new, flew from Belgrade to Manchester, but it was necessary to refuel in Munich, after which there was another takeoff. Junked the engine, but decided on the third takeoff attempt during a snowfall, did not want to waste time. As a result, the ship lost speed in a slush of snow on the ground and crashed into a fence.
There were 44 people on board, 21 passengers died immediately, and the rest of the surviving goalkeeper of Manchester United Harry Greg helped to get out. But not all survived, Duncan Edwards died in hospital, although nine players survived the horror... Bobby Charlton and six others played after the disaster. Two could not, and Sir Matt Busby was in charge of the new Manchester United - he, too, was in the advantageous part of the plane. The club bravely took the blow and managed to prepare the "Busby Babies". Ten years after the disaster, the crew commander was acquitted - he was not to blame. In the same year, Manchester United Bobby Robson and George Best won the European Cup, the first for England.
Fifty-six years ago, just two years after the disaster in Munich, a plane with the country's national team players on board crashed while landing at an airport in Denmark. Landings were carried out on the island, bad weather conditions prevented the pilot from maintaining control of the aircraft... And fifty meters from the coast, a small aircraft - an old-era aircraft with wings above and below, found itself in the water. All passengers died, and the fishermen managed to save the pilot, although he received a disability and leg amputation.
There were eight players on board, all of them were officially registered as amateurs, since according to the local rules, professionals who went abroad were not called up to the national team. We were preparing for the Olympics, most of them were young guys, from 19 to 23 years old. They worked as engineers, blacksmiths, mechanics, but from the Olympic team. And a strong team! Denmark has decided not to refuse to participate in the tournament in Rome. In memory of our partners, we reached the final, where they lost to the powerful Yugoslavia... In the composition were the collections that flew the second plane, and one of them was removed from the ship that eventually crashed due to bad behavior... Such coincidences occur in almost every disaster.
Mountains are one of the causes of plane crashes in South America. In the sixties, two major tragedies happened at once. In 1961, the team of the first division of the Chilean championship "Green Cross" from Santiago crashed in full force in the Las Lastimas mountain range in the Cordillera. We were returning home after the national championship match ... And eight years later, in September 1969, 17 players and 3 Strongest coaches - multiple champion and a very popular club in Bolivia, crashed in the Andes. In the first case, icing of the turbine wings and blades affected. The second reason could be mountains and incorrect calculation of flight altitude. Moreover, in this case, we are dealing with a mass tragedy - in total 78 people died, not only football players.
The history of Soviet football has its own terrible page - the death of Pakhtakor. A great tragedy, two Tu-134 planes collided in the air near Dneprodzerzhinsk, all 178 people did not survive. There is immediately a complex of fatal coincidences and mistakes.... Both negligence and inexperience - the dispatcher was twenty years old, and his boss had miscalculated the time. And he assigned the two huge sides the same height. The mistake was recognized, panic began during the negotiations, everyone interrupted each other, the pilots misunderstood the controllers' teams, who were eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Cloudiness added, and a tragedy occurred that could have been avoided if one of the planes had flown next to the other 20 milliseconds earlier. 20 milliseconds at airplane speed would do a lot! As a result, 17 footballers, administrators and coaches of Pakhtakor, which flew to Tashkent from Minsk, were among the victims of the unforgettable crash. Including Mikhail An is a very talented midfielder. It was decided to strengthen the club with players from other teams, including the Spartak player and Denis Glushakov's uncle joined Pakhtakor. For Soviet and Uzbek football, that disaster is a wound forever.
Landing tragedy. On the plane, a sensor has broken, which indicates whether the landing gear is extended. The pilots first made sure that it was possible to land - made a circle over the airport, and received confirmation from the ground that the wheels were in place. But then the approach altitude was not calculated. It looks like there were other problems, plane with 43 people - players, leaders and fans of "Alliance", ended up in the ocean... Six miles north of the capital of Peru, evening time, a pilot error and a classified crash site - the authorities were afraid that the decrepit state of the aircraft on the Air Force's balance sheet would be linked to their methods of managing the country.
Only many years later they began to talk about the details of the tragedy. The Alliance club has lost a promising line-up, but it is much worse that people have died. All but one - the pilot survived. Moreover, the politicians were so cynical that they initially lied to the relatives of the victims, saying that the plane did not take off at all due to weather conditions. They feared that the ship had been shot down by terrorists, and no one was allowed to reach the scene of the accident. As a result, conspiracy theories were spawned - they say that fuel could run out. For Alliance, that tragedy in the football sense meant falling out of the championship fight for ten years, although the legendary Teofilio Cubillas returned from the United States to play for Alliance and help as much as he could.
The largest plane crash in the history of Suriname. And the biggest tragedy for Dutch football. After all, there were players from the Netherlands of Surinamese origin on board that flight from Amsterdam. They flew along with almost two hundred passengers, fifteen football players died, in total out of 187 people only eleven survived... The cause of the crash was called a crew error, as happens in most of these stories. During the landing approach, it was not possible to cope with the controls. Moreover, stars of the first magnitude could also be on board.
The Dutch Surinamese flew to friendlies with local clubs to support them. It was about the players "Twente", "Ajax", "Zwolle" and "NAK Breda". Though the most stellar Surinamese were saved by the greed of the clubs... The teams of Rijkaard, Gullit, Winter and Roy did their best to prevent future legends, European champions and Ballon d'Or holders from being on that plane. But here we are not evaluating the level of the players. If a major England player dies, it is as great a tragedy as the death of young people from Holland. In Suriname, that event is not forgotten, and six-year-old Romeo Kastelin - later the Volga midfielder, lost his mother and sister.
As stated above, African flights are much more likely to crash than over Europe or North America... In South America, mountains and cloudiness complicate the situation, but in the African case, airlines can save on aircraft maintenance and technical malfunctions often lead to the death of people. Plus the continent itself is huge, the distances are great. The plane that crashed 18 players of the Zambian national team was a 1975 release, far from new... He did not reach the coast of Gabon five hundred meters.
One of the engines caught fire, but the pilots mistakenly turned off the work - the light signal incorrectly showed a breakdown... As a result, a very promising Zambia squad perished - the "copper bullets" beat Italy 4: 0 at the Olympics, dreamed of winning the African Cup and reaching the World Cup. The captain of that team and PSV player Kalusha Bvalia had to fly to Senegal himself separately. As a result, he survived, like a couple of other legionnaires. A year later, the team assembled from the reservists reached the final of the African Cup of Nations, where they lost to Nigeria. But they became national heroes, and in 2012, Zambia won the final against the Ivorians at a stadium near the crash site. These are the coincidences.
Twenty days ago, Argentina flew on the same plane for the match against the Brazilian team. In the summer, Messi complained about the quality of the board for the America's Cup in the USA, which often breaks. Just three weeks ago, Lionel, Di Maria, Higuain, Otamendi, Mascherano and their partners could have been on this list - a terrible coincidence. Today each of them will re-evaluate life. Unfortunately, after a happy twenty-three years without such major tragedies, another disaster struck. Brazilian footballers from the Chapecoense club were killed. We were ninth in Serie A and flew to Colombia for the Copa Sudamericana game against Atlético Nacional. The local analogue of the Europa League, the game international level... Now write that the cause was either a malfunction of the aircraft, or weather conditions prevented... Since some of the people - 72 passengers and 9 crew members, managed to survive, we can conclude that the pilots tried to land the ship and save at least someone.
Now saved people and among them, according to information, three football players, in the hospital. Initially, ten victims were reported and sent to the hospital. A terrible page in the history of football. For twenty-three years, they managed to deliver hundreds, thousands of football teams around the world to matches without incident. And these are children's teams, and stars of the first magnitude. It is a great pity for those who died in the Colombian disaster, we wish strength to their families and will to live for the survivors... Let this case be the last of its kind for decades to come. Airlines and aircraft designers once again need to reconsider their attitude to costing - they need to stop being greedy for a long time and invest in testing modern systems safe landing in case of malfunction. Yes, a task for genius engineers, yes, it's expensive, but people's lives are at stake. Brazilian footballers died today, but you know who could have been in their place at the beginning of November - the Argentine national team. A terrible page in the history of football and another reason not to forget how important it is to control every technical detail when you take responsibility for someone else's life in the air.
Almost the entire main composition of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense, heading to Medellin, Colombia for the first South American Cup final against Atlético Nacional, was killed in a plane crash on Tuesday night over Colombia. There were 81 people on board, including the Chapecoense players, crew attendants, journalists and crew members. However, by some miracle, five of them managed to survive. This can help to more quickly clarify the causes of the tragedy. At the moment, there are two main versions - electronics failure and depletion of the fuel supply.
Catastrophe
On Monday night, about 30 km from Medellin, the BAe 146 of the Bolivian airline LaMia crashed. A total of 81 people were on board, including virtually the entire main squad of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense, bound for Medellin, where the first South American Cup final match was scheduled for December 1 (the second most important club tournament South America after the Copa Libertadores), in which the Brazilians had to oppose the Colombian “Atlético Nacional”. In addition to the footballers, coaches and crew members, there were also 21 journalists and nine crew members on board.
According to the Colombian authorities, at about 22:00 local time, the crew of the ship, at that time at an altitude of about 4500 m, gave a distress signal. He soon disappeared from the radar. Rescuers, taking into account the circumstances, in particular the fact that the plane crashed in mountainous and wooded areas, as well as the fact that it was raining heavily in the fall zone, managed to arrive at the crash site rather quickly. It soon became clear that there were survivors in the plane crash. Among them were two goalkeepers of the team - Danilo and Jackson Fallman, defenders Alan Rushel and Eliu Zampier, as well as one of the journalists and a flight attendant.
The presence of survivors of the disaster gives hope that the investigation into the causes of the tragedy will proceed faster than usual. At the moment, the Colombian authorities have practically ruled out the version with a pilot error. This is pushed by the fact that the crew, even before the car disappeared from the radar, managed to report that the aircraft's electronic equipment was failing. In addition, a flight attendant who survived the crash reported that the flight was proceeding normally, but at some point all four engines stopped at once. In his opinion, it looked like the plane had simply run out of fuel.
Note that the crashed BAe 146 was produced in 1999. It has been in operation by LaMia since 2013, and during this time it was this aircraft that regularly transported football teams, including the Argentine national team or the same Atletico Nacional. At the airport in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, from where he was traveling (the Brazilian aviation authorities did not give the Bolivian company permission for a charter flight to Colombia, citing the fact that such flights should be operated by either Brazilian or Colombian carriers), they said that the pre-flight inspection did not reveal no problem.
After it became known about the disaster, the Brazilian authorities declared three days of mourning in the country. In turn, the Confederation of Football of South America (CONMEBOL) has canceled all matches played under its auspices until further notice. Of course, this also applies to the finals of the South American Cup, which will definitely not take place now. Well, it is not excluded that Chapecoense will be declared the winner. At least such a proposal was made yesterday by the leadership of Atletico Nacional.
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Year: 1949
Fatalities: 31 people
Survivors: No
In the 1940s, 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, except for the 1944 tournament, which was not recognized as official. By the time of the tragedy, 10 players of the national team, including the captain of the Azzurra squadron V. Mazzola, were playing in the "Burgundy" team.
On May 4, 1949, the team returned home from a friendly against Benfica in the Portuguese capital. The plane with the players on board after departure from Lisbon landed in Barcelona to replenish the fuel supply. In the capital of Catalonia, the Torino players met with the Milan players who were heading to Madrid, and as it turned out later, the Rossoneri were the last to see the Burgundy alive. On approaching the destination, due to the increased nebula, the pilot lost control of the aircraft and dropped below the permissible limit, due to which the left wing touched the basilica built on a hill. As a result of this contact, the plane turned around and at high speed the board crashed into the ground. None of the 28 passengers (18 - football players) and 4 crew members survived.
This tragedy has had a major impact on Italian football. It took Italy almost two decades to return to the elite of European football, and Torino lost its status as a top club forever.
"Manchester United"
Year: 1958
Fatalities: 23 persons
Survivors: 21 people
After winning the English Championship in 1956, Manchester United, with the help of their mentor Matt Busby, secured a European Cup clearance and became the first English club who played in the main European Cup. In the 1956/57 season, the Mankunians reached the semifinals in the CCH, and again won gold in the English Championship. The next season also started off well for Manchester United. Busby's team was in the leading positions in the domestic championship, and in CCH reached the quarterfinals.
In the quarter-finals of CCH 57/58 Manchester United had to play a two-legged duel with Crvena Zvezda. 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 score of 3: 3, which led Busby's charges to the second semi-final of the Champions League in a row.
Returning from Belgrade, the plane with the crew on board landed in Munich for refueling. Having replenished the fuel reserves, the plane was supposed to immediately go to Manchester, but takeoff was canceled due to engine problems. By that time, it was snowing heavily and visibility decreased, but the ship's commander decided to make another takeoff attempt, despite the existing problems. Having entered the runway, the plane with "MU" on board accelerated to a speed of 217 km / h, at which it was already impossible to cancel the takeoff, but the pilots could not lift the car into the air. Leaving the runway, the plane at high speed rammed the runway fence and crashed into a residential building. The crash killed 8 football players, three members coaching staff and ten other passengers. Among the survivors were Busby's mentor and striker Bobby Charlton, as well as other footballers.
Despite the death of eight players and injuries sustained by the rest of the team, Manchester United managed to finish the season and took second place in the English Championship, and the Mancunians lost to Milan in the semi-final of the CC. Ten years after the Munich tragedy, Busby will lead Manchester United to the first European club title, and Charlton, who plays under him, will receive the Ballon d'Or.
Danish Olympic Team
Year: 1960
Fatalities: 23 persons
Survivors: 21 people
In 1960, summer events were held in Rome Olympic Games, and the Danish national team was one of the participants in the Olympic football tournament... On 16 July, eight players from the Danish Olympic team took off from Copenhagen in a small Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide aircraft, piloted by 27-year-old pilot Stig Vindelev. A few minutes after takeoff, the pilot in poor visibility lost the horizon and the plane crashed into the water 50 meters from the coast near the town 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 again sat at the controls of the plane, becoming a physics teacher and inventor.
Immediately after the plane crash, the Danish Football Union decided to withdraw its national team from the 1960 Olympics, but then this decision was canceled and the Danish team won the Olympic silver.
Year: 1961
Fatalities: 24 persons
Survivors: No
In the spring of 1961, Chilean football lost the Green Cross. On April 3, the Douglas C 47A, carrying the club's players and coaches, flew from Castro to Santiago, crashed in the Cordillera, killing all 24 on board. The wreckage of the plane crashed in Chile was found only in 2015. The search expedition found only part of the aircraft, which by that time was covered with a layer of earth and was not visible from the air.
Year: 1969
Fatalities: 74 people
Survivors: No
In 1969, the Strongest Bolivian club returned to La Paz from the city of Santa Cruz, where an international friendly tournament was held. The team was on board a Douglas DC-6B aircraft, which, including footballers 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. After 2 hours and 20 minutes after takeoff, the plane stopped communicating, after which a search operation was announced. The wreckage of the plane was found on the same day by a group of miners from the small village of Violko and a rescue group went to the crash site. Upon arrival, rescuers found that of the 74 people on board, there were no survivors.
According to the results of the examination, it was established 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 mountainside.