On September 7, 2011, the Yak-42 plane of the Yak Service airline crashed during takeoff from the Tunoshna airport in the Yaroslavl region. On board the aircraft was hockey team Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl), which flew to the 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. The Iranian youth judo team was on board. Athletes flew to Armenia for training, and then had to fly to Hungary to participate in competitions. All 168 people on this flight were killed.
August 24, 2008 in Kyrgyzstan, a Boeing-737 plane crashed on its way from Bishkek to Tehran. There were 90 people on board, including 17 members of the Iranian youth volleyball team. Ten of them died. 25 passengers and crew members managed to escape.
April 27, 1993 near Gabon, Africa, a DHC-5 Buffalo, carrying members of the Zambian football team, crashed at sea as a result of an engine malfunction. A total of 30 people died, including 18 football players.
June 7, 1989 A DC-8-60 plane crash occurred at the airport in the capital of Suriname, Paramaribo, South America, killing 23 Dutch football players of Surinamese origin on board the crashed plane. A total of 176 people died (out of 187 passengers and crew).
December 8, 1987 near the city of Lima (Peru) as a result of explosions on board an F-27 aircraft in full complement died football team"Alliance". The bodies of the dead could not be found as the plane crashed into the sea. It is known that in total there were 43 people on the plane.
March 14, 1980 in the plane crash of the Polish Il-62 plane near Warsaw (Poland), 22 members of the US national boxing team were killed.
August 11, 1979 Above the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk (Ukraine), a Tu-134 plane, performing a Tashkent-Minsk flight, collided with an aircraft flying from Chelyabinsk to Chisinau. Killed 178 people (165 passengers and 13 crew members), from Uzbekistan, performing at the time in major league... The team flew to Minsk to play with the local Dynamo.
November 29, 1975 The plane crash killed the team of Formula-1 racers Embassy Racing with Graham Hill pilot Graham Hill. The six-seater Piper Aztec, on which the team was returning from races in France to London, crashed and burned while landing.
October 13, 1972 in the Andes, part of the rugby team from Montevideo (Uruguay) was killed in a plane crash on the way to the capital of Chile, the city of Santiago.
A total of 45 people were on board the FH-227 aircraft, of which 16 survived.
December 31, 1970 Air-Liquid, an Algerian amateur soccer team, was killed in a plane crash in full force on its way to a friendly in Spain.
November 14, 1970 In Virginia, USA, 37 players of the Marshall University (Huntington, West Virginia) American football team were killed in a plane crash. In addition to the athletes, members of the coaching staff, fans, as well as the head of the sports department (75 people in total) were on board the aircraft. No one survived.
April 1, 1970 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 crashed with 25 players of the Strongest Bolivian football team. Killed 19 players and club leaders.
April 3, 1961 a Douglas C-47A plane crashed in the Cordillera, Chile. The disaster killed everyone on board - the Chilean Green Cross football team and crew members (24 people).
February 15, 1961 while landing in Belgium, a Sabena Boeing 707 crashed on a flight from New York to Brussels. All 72 people on board were killed, as well as one person on the ground. The US figure skating team (34 athletes and coaches), which was heading to the World Championships in Prague (Czechoslovakia), was killed in the crash. World Championship figure skating 1961 was canceled as a sign of mourning for the dead.
February 6, 1958 at the airport in Munich (Germany), while trying to take off, the plane crashed with the players English team"Manchester United". A total of 23 people on board were killed, 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 landing approach in adverse weather conditions in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), a Li-2 plane crashed. Killed 8 hockey players of the USSR Air Force team, as well as a coach, a doctor and a massage therapist.
May 4, 1949 as a result of a plane crash near Turin (Italy), the entire team was killed football club"Torino" and everyone else on board the aircraft (including journalists, officials, coach). 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 on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources
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In Colombia, a plane crashed with 81 people on board, including nine crew members and 72 passengers, including 22 players from the Brazilian football club Chapecoense, 28 members of the club's management, coaches and 22 journalists accompanying the sports delegation. According to the country's authorities, only six people survived the plane crash. According to Flightradar, the plane flew to the Colombian city of Medellin from the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia and crashed about 45 km from the destination airport.
Representatives of the Civil Aviation Administration of Colombia said that the liner, which belonged to the Bolivian air carrier Lamia, crashed in the area of the town of El Gordo near the municipality of La Union (department of Antioquia), reports TASS. Rescuers quickly arrived at the crash site.
Later it became known that the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) suspended events under its auspices, including matches of the South American Cup final, in connection with the disaster in Colombia, TASS reports. The final match of the South American Football Cup has been postponed.
"CONMEBOL confirms that it was notified by the Colombian authorities that the plane carrying the Chapecoense delegation had an accident in Colombia," the organization said in a statement. "CONMEBOL President Alejandro Dominguez is on his way to Medellin right now," the statement said.
Chapecoense is a Brazilian football club from Chapeco (Santa Catarina state). It was founded on May 10, 1973 by the amalgamation of the Atletico Chapecoense and Independente clubs. Since 2014 he has been playing in Serie A of the Brazilian Championship. Chapecoense play in the Major League, where they are currently in ninth place.
Recall that for last years this is not the first plane crash to be flown by members of a sports team. So, on September 7, 2011, near Yaroslavl, the Yak-42D airliner of the Yak Service airline crashed on its way to Minsk. The main team was on board hockey club Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl). The athletes flew to their first match in the 2011/2012 KHL Championship.
Then one person survived the crash - an engineer for aviation and radio engineering services Alexander Sizov. The remaining 44 people (36 passengers and eight crew members) were killed.
Other similar tragedies include two more plane crashes. On January 5, 1950, near the Sverdlovsk Koltsovo airport, a Li-2 plane crashed with 11 hockey players, a doctor and a masseur of the Air Force ice hockey team.
On August 11, 1979, two Tu-134A Aeroflot airliners collided in the sky near Dneprodzerzhinsk at an altitude of 8400 m (flights 7628 Chelyabinsk - Voronezh - Chisinau and 7880 Tashkent - Guryev - Donetsk - Minsk), resulting in the deaths of all 178 people (94 on flight 7628 and 84 on flight 7880). Among the dead were 17 members of the Uzbek football club "Pakhtakor", who were flying to Minsk for the game.
On the night of Monday to Tuesday Moscow time, a plane crash occurred in Colombia near Medellin airport. On board the airliner was brazilian team "Chapecoense", flying on final match South American Cup with Colombian Atletico Nacional... "SE" cites the main facts of the tragedy.
The plane disappeared from the radar screens at 22.15 local time. Later it became known that the liner crashed on the territory of Colombia in the province of Antioquia. The crew of the aircraft informed the dispatchers of the Medellin Cordoba airport about the lack of fuel. The flight was given priority for an emergency landing, but was unable to land.
On board the aircraft was 81 people - 72 passengers and 9 crew members... Among the passengers was the Brazilian Chapecoense team flying to the South American Cup final match with the Colombian Atletico Nacional, coaching staff, technical staff, as well as journalists.
According to official data, it was found 6 survivors including three football players - defender There is not, goalkeeper Zhaksona and defender Alana Rushela.
One of the possible causes of the plane crash is the lack of fuel.
Football club "Chapecoense"(literal translation of the name - the Football Association of the city of Chapeco) was founded on May 10, 1973 at the merger of clubs "Atletico Chapecoense" and "Independent", five-time champion Santa Catarina State (1977, 1996, 2007, 2011, 2016), two-time Santa Catarina State Cup Winner (1979, 2006), Series B silver medalist (2013), Series C bronze medalist (2012), Series D bronze medalist ( 2009).
The Avro RJ-85 is a commercial mid-size jet aircraft manufactured by British Aerospace (UK) from 1983 to 2003. The liner carrying the Chapecoense had been in operation for 17 years. It is also reported that the same plane transported the Argentine national team to the match with Brazil (0: 3) in qualifying tournament World Cup 2018.
In Brazil, a three-day mourning has been declared, and in the state of Santa Catarina - a 30-day mourning. The celebration of Christmas and New Year is in question.
Rescuers found a "black box" of the crashed plane.
The condition of the survivors is assessed as grave.
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Ex-mentor of CSKA Zico honored the memory of the victims of today's disaster near Medellin by posting a black square on his instagram. Message legendary footballer began with the phrase "I have never lost so many friends."
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Head coach of Atletico Nacional Reinaldo Rueda reported that his team flew six times on the plane that crashed today.
I deeply regret the deaths of all passengers, including the Chapecoense. I especially regret the loss of the crew, which was well known to us. We flew with them six times. V last time we flew on this plane on November 3rd from Asuncion, returning from a match with Cerro Porteno. This is all very difficult to accept.
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The Civil Aviation Department of Colombia has issued an official statement regarding the death of the plane with the Brazilian Chapecoense. At the moment, 75 dead and six survivors are known. All of them were taken to the hospital.
70% of the bodies were found in the fuselage, 30%, including the survivors, were found near the plane. The search operation involved 150 people. The black box has not yet been found.
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Terek expressed its condolences.
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Brazilian Chapecoense were heading to Medellin for their first South American Cup final against Colombia's 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 sport Team who died in a plane crash almost in full force. In 58th the world was shocked by the tragedy of Manchester United. And in the Soviet Union in 79th the Tashkent football team "Pakhtakor" crashed. 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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Athletes fly often - to competitions, training camps, training. And representatives of team sports also fly all together. Therefore, numerous cases from history modern sports when an entire sports team died in a plane crash, statistically quite explainable. But this does not diminish the pain of relatives, friends and fans. Today we remember the most tragic plane crashes in the history of sports.
The death of the Yaroslavl "Locomotive"
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 better offer from ex-rivals - Kazan "Ak Bars". This, however, did not prevent 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 airport “Tunoshna”. One of the star players of the team was Alexander Galimov, whose efforts in the matches on the eve of the season, the team won seven victories and two defeats. It was Galimov who scored the last goal in Lokomotiv's games before the plane crash. Galimov survived the crash, but died in hospital five days later. The rest of the 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 a mistake by the crew, which, as it turned out, was not sufficiently prepared to fly this type of aircraft.
The plane crash that changed wrestling
This plane crash resulted in serious injuries for the participants and ended two careers. However, if the injuries of those who survived were more serious, the entire sports and entertainment industry would change beyond recognition. A Cessna-310 private jet en route from Charlotte to Wilmington, North Carolina on September 4, 1975, carried promoter David Crockett and four wrestlers - Mr. Wrestling II, Bobby Bruges, Johnny Valentine and Rick Flair. The plane crash was the result of a mistake 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 killed only the pilot, 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 have changed 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, not telling anyone about Mr. Wrestling's participation in that flight. He himself, fortunately, managed to support the cover legend - staying alive and well, Mr. Restnling entered the ring just two weeks after the accident.
Plane crash "Grand Torino"
Italian, and perhaps world football, did not know a team that had such an indisputable superiority over its rivals as Grand Torino - such a nickname was given to the team of the Italian football club Torino in the 1940s. The team won five national cups in a row and continued to win until a plane crash on May 4, 1949 killed 18 players and 13 team members. "Grand Torino" was a team hand-picked: the owner of the "Torino" club Ferruzio Novo was one of the first specialists in the world of sports to put the search for talent on a professional basis.
Club "Torino" won championship 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 happened during the return of the players from a friendly game in Lisbon. The accident was caused by the pilot's mistake, who lost control in bad weather conditions. The National Football Federation, in the end, decided to award the team with the 1949 championship title as a sign of the highest justice: after all, if that unfortunate accident had not happened, the team would have undoubtedly received it.
Busby Babes Plane Crash in Munich
"Busby Babes" who came to big football from youth school trainees of Manchester United head coach Matt Busby were very young - they were all in their early twenties. However, pupils youth team“Manchester”, having played together since childhood, were a close-knit professional team, and after joining the main team won the English championship twice - in the 1955-56 and 1956-57 seasons. Fans adored them not only for their talent, but also for the fact that they were all pupils of the club, and not players bought in other clubs, which at that time was just becoming fashionable. Alas, their success was interrupted by a plane crash in Munich on February 6, 1958, in which eight key players of the team were killed and two more were seriously injured. The plane, trying to take off during a blizzard, barely got off 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 families and friends of the victims, but to the people of England as a whole.
American figure skating team killed in plane crash
In 1961, figure skating in the United States was at its peak. The leader of the national figure skating team, Laurence Owen, even appeared on the cover of the popular Sports Illustrated magazine ahead of the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague. Two days after the issue of the magazine was published, Owen and the rest of the national team were tragically killed in a plane crash in Brussels. The plane that brought the skaters to Europe exploded during an emergency landing. All 72 passengers, including the athletes of the national team and their families, died instantly. The only survivor was a dog flying in the luggage compartment. The figure skating world was overwhelmed. 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, addressed the people with words of condolences.
Death of the "Strongest"
It was not for nothing that Bolivian team "Strongest" had such a self-confident name: it really shone in the national championship for many years. In September 1969, the team flew to Santa Cruz for a friendly match. Having played, the players of the "Strongest" on September 26, 1969 on a DC-6 plane went to their homeland, to the city of La Paz. But it was on this day that a military coup took place in the country. In the confusion, the plane with the players mysteriously disappeared from the radar and was discovered only a day later crashed near the village of Viloko. All passengers - 81 people - were killed, including 17 football players, the team's coach and manager, and a technician.
The death of the Marshall University American football team
For the small town of Huntington, West Virginia, 1970 was marked by the success of Marshall University's local American football team, the Thundering Horde. As a team local significance The Horde rarely traveled by plane, and the joint flight on November 14, 1970 was almost the first in its practice. Why the plane crashed, the investigation did not manage to figure it out. There were 37 crew members on board, including 9 coaches, and a number of fans. Including the death toll, this disaster is considered the most massive tragedy in the history of American sports.
The death of "Pakhtakor"
The death of the Pakhtakor football team is perhaps the most famous tragedy in the history of 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 Dinamo Minsk. The dispatcher noticed too late that the plane was dangerously approaching another TU-134 in the air. He gave the order for the aircraft to disperse, but the command was not accepted by the crews - and the wing of one of the aircraft was proportional to the fuselage of the other. This caused both vehicles to explode in mid-air. All 178 passengers on both flights were killed, including 17 Pakhtakor players and coaches. According to rumors, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev flew that day, which caused confusion on the airways. Despite the tragedy, the surviving players of "Pakhtakor" returned to the field just 12 days after the tragedy to continue playing in the USSR championship, thus paying tribute to their dead comrades.
The deaths of basketball players from Evansville
In 1977, the University of Evansville basketball team prepared for a tough start to the season. The main problem of the team was the departure of the coach, Arad McCutchen, who had been working with the team for many years. McCutchen 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 began unsuccessfully: three losses against one victory. However, the team members were full of resolve when they headed out for the match against the University of Central Tennessee on December 3, 1977. The flight was delayed for several hours due to bad weather conditions. When the plane nevertheless took off from the ground, it stayed in the air for only one and a half minutes, after which it crashed to the ground. Among the reasons for the disaster was later named, in particular, the overloading of the luggage compartment. The crash killed 17 crew members. Later, the University of Evansville inaugurated the Crying Basketball Memorial in honor of the victims.
The death of the Zambia national team
The 1993 Zambian football team was considered the best in the history of the country. Football has always been popular in this African country, especially during the reign of President Kenneth Kaunda, who spared no expense for its development. After the displacement of Kaunda, there was less money, but the national team, despite the poverty, remained one of the best in Africa. However, the team had to cut itself on everything, including transportation costs. For flight on qualifying match World Cup with the Senegal national team in Dakar, the team had to rent a plane from the Zambian Air Force. Alas, the national air force was in a deplorable state. On April 27, 1993, during the flight, one of the aircraft'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.
Plane crash of the American boxing team
As you know, the US national team, among 65 countries of the world, boycotted the Moscow 1980 Olympics. However, the US boxing team in any case could not take part in Olympic competitions due to a terrible plane crash on March 14, 1980 that killed 14 athletes and 8 team members. Boxers were heading to a competition in Poland when their plane crashed on its way to Warsaw. In total, 87 passengers died in the crash. The best of the crashed athletes, experts are considered the champion of the Pan American Games Lemuel Steeples.
The death of the "eleven motley"
These Dutch footballers of Surinamese descent were real humanists: 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 eleven motley" - a sign that they bring bright colors to 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 members died in a plane crash in Paramaribo on June 7, 1989, which killed 176 passengers and crew members of an aircraft flying from Europe to South America... Two more team members, including Dutch football legend Ruud Gullit, gave up the flight at the very last moment and thus escaped. As it turned out later, the crash occurred due to the fact that when landing at Paramaribo airport, the plane touched the top of a tree.
Hendrick Motosport team killed in 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 he who happened on October 24, 2004, when 10 people from the Hendrick Motorsport team were killed in a plane crash, including the son of team owner Rick Hendrick, NASCAR racer Ricky Hendrick, his older brother and nieces. On this day, the team successfully took part in the competitions on the auto track in Marisville. The message of the accident, which killed 10 people, came a few minutes after the news of the victory of the racer Jimmy Johnson on the track. The cause of the crash would later be blamed on a combination of pilot error and harsh foggy weather.
Oklahoma Cowboys Plane Crash
In November 2011, Oklahoma's women's basketball team lost team head coach Kurt Budke and assistant Miranda Serna. They and two other passengers were killed in the crash of a small private jet on which the coach and his assistant were returning home from a trip where they were recruiting new players for their team. The girls from the basketball team considered Kurt Budke a real father, and his assistant was treated like a sister. In addition to them, State Senator Olin Brunstetter and his wife Paula were killed in the crash. The most incredible thing is that for five years the commission to investigate the disaster was never able to establish its cause. At the helm of the plane was Senator Brunstetter, who did not report turbulence or other weather-related issues to controllers. The version that the senator became ill and lost control of the car was not confirmed either. No technical faults were identified either. Because of what the plane crashed, it still remains a mystery.
The death of the "Oklahoma Cowboys"
The long history of the University of Oklahoma tragedies began in January 2001, when 10 members of the university's men's basketball team were killed in a small private jet crash. The team was returning home after being defeated by Colorado Buffaloes to regroup and gather in front of the Colorado Buffaloes. next games... But the pilot of the plane lost orientation during a blizzard, and the plane crashed to the ground. Oklahoma Cowboys players and fans still remember the dead players and coaches with the funeral hymn "Remember the Top Ten." In addition, a memorial has been set up in honor of the victims on the territory of the university, and sports competitions are held in memory of the victims every year.