10 horrific plane accidents in sports

Before the Chapecoense tragedy of Brazil, many sports-related aircraft disasters have happened in the past.

10. Team Alianza Lima Peru

Alianza Lima aviation disaster occurred on December 8, 1987, when an Peruvian Navy Fokker aircraft with F27-400M number was hired by Peruvian Football Club Alianza Lima, plunging into the Pacific Ocean from a height of 6 mile. There are a total of 44 players, managers, staff, cheerleading crews and crew on board, but only one pilot survives the accident. The team is on their way back from a match in the Peruvian national championship. The crew discovered some technical glitches on the dashboard that prevented the aircraft from landing. The pilot asked to fly over the control station to detect the land that could land, but realized the plane's landing gear was locked. The aircraft then attempted to land, but the Fokker plunged into the sea.

The Peruvian Navy Fokker plane with F27-400M number was hired by Peruvian Football Club Alianza Lima and plunged into the Pacific Ocean from a height of 6 miles.

After the accident, the Peruvian navy closed with the press and did not publish the results of the investigation, nor allowed other agencies to come to the accident site. Then came the accusation that the accident happened because the mechanical parts of poor quality aircraft and the navy had to hide the truth to keep face. Until 2006, an official disaster investigation brought the truth to light.

The investigation led to the inexperienced pilot's conclusion, misinterpretation of emergency procedures related to landing and the weak mechanical conditions of the aircraft also contributed to the accident.

Peru Football Federation decided not to end the season early, despite the disaster. Alianza played their last few games of the season with a team of volunteers, players from young teams and some players borrowed from a Chilean club. The accident was disastrous for Alianza, who lost their most promising squad in a decade.

9. American amateur boxing team

The Polish airline LOT 007 crashed right near Warsaw Capital on March 14, 1980 because of a mechanical error that prevented it from landing, after trying to fly around in the sky. All 87 people on board were killed. There were many amateur boxing team members, many of whom qualified for the American Olympic boxing team (the United States then withdrew from the 1980 Olympics in Moscow).

Boxing team to Poland attend many matches with Polish and Russian amateur boxing teams. The plane 007 left New York City at 21h18, and after 9 hours of peace, it approached the Warsaw airport at 11:13 local time. In the final stage, about 1 minute before landing, the crew reported that the landing indicator lights were not working so they would have to fly around in the sky while flight engineers checked the bridge problems. lead, light bulb, gears .

The LOT 007 plane of Polish Airlines crashed near Warsaw.

9 seconds after the last audio signal, the plane suddenly plunged. At 11:14 35 minutes, 26 seconds after losing control, the right wing of the plane crashed into a tree and collided with an ice-covered lake. At the final test, the pilot also attempted to adjust the plane to not crash into a youth correctional camp. The plane was destroyed, most of it was submerged in the lake. The lake was then drained to the plane crash investigation team.

One of the amateur boxing team victims was not on the plane when it was Johnny "Bump City" Bumphus, a member of the American boxing team at a weight of 139 pounds. Bumphus later continued his successful professional boxing career and earned the middle-class WBA title.

8. Evansville University basketball team

On December 3, 1977, the DC-3 aircraft carrying Evansville University basketball team crashed near Evansville regional airport. All team members were killed. A player cannot attend the match, so is not on the plane, lucky escape.

The DC-3 aircraft carrying Evansville University basketball team crashed near Evansville regional airport.

The team was on their way to Nashvile, Tennessee, for a match against Central Tennessee University. The plane crashed in the fog about 90 seconds after taking off from Evansville airport. 29 dead include 14 members of the basketball team. Three people survived in the accident but also died during the emergency. The staff determines the cause of the accident is the imbalance of gravity and the crew removes the outer safety lock.

7. Cal Poly rugby team

Cal Poly rugby plane crashed on October 29, 1960. The plane crashed when it took off at the Toledo Express airport in Toledo, Ohio. 22/48 people on the plane died, including 16 players. After the investigation, authorities concluded that the aircraft was overloaded by about 2,000 pounds (about 907kg) on ​​the maximum allowable weight and electrical leakage on the left engine. Before takeoff, the weather at the airport was also quite bad and at the time of the accident, the plane had absolutely no signal.

22/48 people on the plane died, including 16 players.

6. Wichita State rugby team

On Friday, October 2, 1970, the rugby team of Wichita State University went abroad on Martin 4-0-4. The accident happened when the plane crashed into a mountain 8 miles west of Silver Plume, Colorado. Aircraft carrying 36 passengers and 4 crew members. 29 people were killed and 2 others died while being rescued. This is one of two Wichita State rugby aircraft to Logano, Utah, meeting the University of Utah rugby team.

Two planes are called Gold and Black according to team colors. The Gold crashed with the main squad players, coaches and supporters while the Black carried other support staff. The pilot of the Gold did not comply with the flight plan, when changing the flight route to a beautiful landscape, and the Black pilot complied with the initial flight plan.

Rugby team of Wichita State University went abroad on Martin 4-0-4 aircraft.

While refueling in Denver, the Golden plane pilot bought a map to set up landmarks for the scenic journey. After taking off in good weather, two planes fly different routes from Denver. Separating from the normal flight path, the Gold flew over the mountains and reached a canyon. At 1:14 minutes, the Golden crashed into the trees on Trelease Mountain, 488 meters high and crashed. The investigation reports that many people are still alive after the initial collision, but only a few survived after escaping the fuselage, before it caught fire, killing all those still trapped in the camera body. fly.

The match was later canceled and the Utah team held a memorial service for the victims in the stadium that should have taken place. Wichita State University then built a memorial to members killed, called Memorial '70. Every year on October 2, at 9am, a wreath will be placed at this memorial.

5. AC Torino football team in 1949

The Superga plane disaster took place on Wednesday, May 4, 1949, when an aircraft waited for most of the Torino team to crash into the Superga hill near Torino, killing 31 members, including 18 players and officials. , journalists go with .

The Italian Airlines Fiat G212CP carried the team into a storm when arriving in Torino hindered visibility. They were forced to lower the altitude so they could observe. While descending the altitude, the plane crashed due to hitting the wall behind the Superga hilltop complex. Authorities Italy said the reason is that low clouds limit visibility, poor radio waves and an error in navigation causing accidents.

The plane waits for most of the Torino team to crash into the Superga hill near Torino, causing 31 members to die.

The accident had a profound impact on Italian football lovers, as it claimed the lives of the players of the team called the Il Grande Torino (the great Torino) winning the Serie A title in 1944 before the tournament. interrupted by the Second World War, and then won four consecutive victories from 1946 to 1949. At the time of the accident, Torino led the group with only 4 rounds ending. The club then let the youth team play and rivals Genoa, Palermo, Sampdoria and Fiorentina showed respect by sending the youth team to play. The disaster has severely weakened the Italian national team, losing 10 Torino players.

4. Manchester United football team in 1958

On February 6, 1958, British European Airways 609 aircraft crashed, after three attempts to take off from the runway at Munich-Riem Airport, West Germany.

On the plane are Manchester United team, some fans and journalists. 23/44 people on the plane died. The team then returned from the match with the red star C1 Belgrade in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, but had to stop in Munich to refuel. After refueling, the pilots tried to take off twice but were unsuccessful due to engine problems. Fearing to miss the schedule, the team captain refused to spend the night in Munich trying to take off for the third time. The third time, the plane encountered a thin line on the runway that lost speed, could not be stored. wing.

On the plane are Manchester United team, some fans and journalists.23/44 people on the plane died.

He had rushed through the fence at the end of the runway, before hitting a nearby house and shattered. Afraid that the plane might explode, the pilot tried to take the survivors as far as possible. Despite the risk of fire and explosion, goalkeeper Harry Gregg stayed behind to drag the survivors from the ruins. An investigation at the West German airport initially blamed the captain, claiming that he did not de-ige on the aircraft wing despite the witness's opposite report. After that, the real cause was found due to the thin layer of snow on the runway, which resulted in the aircraft being unable to reach the required speed to take off.

3. American skating team in 1961

On February 15, 1961, the Sabena 548, a Boeing 707 flying from New York to Brussels in Belgium, had an accident upon landing. All 72 members on board were killed, among the dead were all American figure skating, who were on their way to the 1961 world championship in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

There is no sign of an incident on the plane until it reaches Brussels airport. The pilot had to fly around the airport waiting for another small plane to get out of the runway. Following the witnesses, the plane began to rise in height and fell abruptly in a field near Berg village. The rubble burned. All members on the plane died immediately. A farmer working in the field was also killed by a piece of aluminum thrown in, and another farmer lost his leg because of a debris from the plane.

On February 15, 1961, the Sabena 548, a Boeing 707 flying from New York to Brussels in Belgium, had an accident upon landing.

Investigators suspect the aircraft has not been stabilized. The accident killed 18 athletes of the American figure skating team in 1961 and 16 family members, coaches and officials. This coolness is considered serious for American figure skating, the nation that dominated the game since the 1950s, and the 1961 World Championship was canceled. US President John F. Kennedy announced condolences from the White House. He was especially shocked by the accident. One of the members killed in the accident, Dudley Richards, was close friends with the President and brother Ted Kennedy from the summer vacation in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

2. Zambia national football team in 1993

The Zambia national team flew on a military plane to Senegal for the 1994 World Cup qualifying match, the plane crashed in the afternoon of April 27, 1993. All 30 passengers and crew, including 18 players and national team coach, support staff, died after the accident. The other two members of the national team, the players who played abroad should take another flight to the match, they all survived.

All 30 passengers and crew, including 18 players and national team coach, support staff, died after the accident.

The flight from Zambia to Senegal took three stops to refuel and at the first stop, in the Congo, the engine had a problem. However, the flight continued and a few minutes after taking off from the second stop in Libreville, Gabon, one of the engines caught fire and failed. The pilot, who was tired of the flight from Mauritius early that day, then turned off the engine wrongly, causing the aircraft to lose energy when rising at Libreville airport. The plane fell from above into the offshore sea 500 meters away.

A brand new team quickly formed for Zambia to qualify for the World Cup qualifiers and then prepared for the African Cup only a few months away. The team quickly revived and reached the final against Nigeria. Despite losing, the Zambia team returned to their homeland as national heroes. After the accident, Zambia mourned for 7 days. 18 players, coaches and crew members were buried with 10,000 people pouring into Zambia capital to give condolences to one of the best football teams in Africa at that time.

1. The Uruguay Old Christians football team in 1972

The Air Force Flight 571 appeared during the so-called "Andres Sequence", carrying a flight carrying 45 passengers including their rugby team and friends, family, and associates . The plane had an accident on October 13, 1972 and after that, 16 people encountered an accident that was rescued on December 23, 1972.

The story of the famous Andres disaster survivors, was adapted into the book "Alive" and the film of the same name released in 1993. On Friday 13th of October 1972, an engine Double propeller of Fairchild FH-227D air plane, carrying members of Old Christians rugby club from Montevideo, Uruguay, to a match in Santiago, Chile.

The plane had an accident on October 13, 1972 and after that, 16 people encountered an accident that was rescued on December 23, 1972.

Due to the bad weather and the limitations of the aircraft, the aircraft could not fly over the Andres range but instead flew through a section connecting to Chile. The pilots misjudged and thought that they had passed the mountain, not recognizing the mountain in front of them, leading to a loss of control when flying into the terrain. In the final attempt to reach the required height, the aircraft crashed into the high mountain of 4200 meters, severing the right wing, falling with a hole in the fuselage. The plane then broke the left wing and the body fell to the ground. The fuselage slid down a steep mountain slope before sinking into the snow.

Of the 45 people on the plane, 12 died in the accident or soon after, five other players died the next morning and another one died on the eighth day. god, struggling with cold mountain injuries.

Survivors have very little food and do not have a heating source at a height of 3600 meters. Faced with hunger, the survivors were thought to have eaten dead passengers, when their bodies were marinated in snow. Rescuers could not find survivors for 72 days after the accident, until passengers Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa, after 12 days traveling through the Andres range, found a Chilean farmer, who gave them consciousness. eat and inform the authorities about the existence of survivors.

Only 16 survivors returned. Their life in the high mountains of Andres just before Christmas 1972 is known as a miraculous story called "Andres miracle".