List of accidents involving sports teams
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This is a list of severe air accidents involving professional sports teams:
- 1940s
- In 1949 most of the Torino A.C. football senior squad were killed in a plane crash outside Turin.
- 1950s
- In 1950, the entire VVS Moscow ice hockey team was killed in an air disaster near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg).
- In 1956, five Canadian football players from the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers were killed returning from the country's professional All-Star Game on Trans Canada Flight 810.
- In 1958, eight players of the Manchester United football team were killed in a plane crash in Munich.
- 1960s
- In 1961: 24 members of the Chilean football team C.D. Green Cross were killed when their aircraft crashed into a mountain outside Llico, Chile.
- A Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Douglas DC-6 passenger plane crashed during a domestic flight from Santa Cruz to La Paz, Bolivia. The airplane carried 16 members of Club The Strongest, from Laz Paz, a football team from Bolivia's top division.
- 1970s
- In 1972, most of the Uruguayan Old Christians Club rugby union team was killed in a plane crash in the Andes mountains.
- In 1974, one of two chartered planes carrying the Västra Frölunda IF ice hockey team crashed prior to landing in a forest outside Gävle, injuring seven players.
- In 1979, the entire Pakhtakor (Tashkent) football team was killed in an air collision over the Dniprodzerzhynsk region. The plane was flying to Minsk.
- 1980s
- On March 14, 1980, in Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
- In 1987, the entire Alianza Lima football team was killed in an air disaster near Lima, Peru.
- In 1989 most of the Kleurrijk Elftal was killed in a plane crash near Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname.
- 1990s
- 2010s
- In 2011, all but one of the members of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team were killed in an airplane crash near Yaroslavl, Russia.[1]
References
- ^ "Yaroslavl plane tragedy" (Press release). KHL. September 7, 2011. Retrieved September 7, 2011.