Has a professional sports team perished together in an airplane crash?
February 212010
Professional sports teams like the Raiders and Diamondbacks travel from coast-to-coast all the time. If one of these flights were to end in a nasty crash, the entire team would be killed. This would be extremely devastating. Has it ever happened?
The Superga air disaster took place on Wednesday, 4 May 1949, when a plane carrying almost the entire Torino A.C. football squad, popularly known as Il Grande Torino, crashed into the hill of Superga near Turin killing all 31 aboard including 18 players, club officials, journalists accompanying the team, and the plane’s crew.
On October 2, 1970 a Martin 4-0-4 aircraft flown by Golden Eagle Aviation crashed near Silver Plume, Colorado. It was one of two planes carrying the Wichita State University football team to Logan, Utah for a game against Utah State University
The Munich air disaster took place on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes", along with a number of supporters and journalists. 23 of the 44 people on board the aircraft died as a result of the crash.
Sabena Flight 548, registration OO-SJB, was a Boeing 707 aircraft en route from New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) to Brussels, Belgium’s Zaventem Airport on February 15, 1961. The flight crashed during the approach for landing. All 72 on board were killed, as was one person on the ground. The crash was the first fatal accident involving a Boeing 707 in regular passenger service.[1] Among the dead were the entire United States Figure Skating team, who were en route to the 1961 World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
On October 29, 1960, a chartered C-46 plane carrying the California Polytechnic State University football team, hours after a 50-6 loss to Bowling Green State University, crashed on takeoff at the Toledo Express Airport in Toledo, Ohio after the left engine lost power. Twenty-two of the forty-eight people on board were killed, including sixteen players, the team’s student manager and a Cal Poly football booster.
February 21st, 2010 at 7:36 pm
idk about an entire team dying but in 1958 tons of players died in a plane crash from Manchester United
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/6/newsid_2535000/2535961.stm
February 21st, 2010 at 8:09 pm
yes…of course…the famous manchester united club which plays soccer..there airplane crashed..and the whole team died..it was a great shock…
And it took years to rebuild the club again..and now u see..it is in top 10 club’s list…
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February 21st, 2010 at 8:30 pm
the Manchester United team.
then the South american rugby (?) team at Andes – there’s a famous movie about them.. they ate their dead teammates. i gues it was called Alive.
edit> bz Frank Marshall, shot in 1993
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February 21st, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Ill be more up to date
West Virginia’s Marshall University team(Football) . a plane crash in 1970 which killed 75 players, coaches and fans.
there was a movie based on real life events
It was called "We Are Marshall"
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February 21st, 2010 at 9:16 pm
The Superga air disaster took place on Wednesday, 4 May 1949, when a plane carrying almost the entire Torino A.C. football squad, popularly known as Il Grande Torino, crashed into the hill of Superga near Turin killing all 31 aboard including 18 players, club officials, journalists accompanying the team, and the plane’s crew.
On October 2, 1970 a Martin 4-0-4 aircraft flown by Golden Eagle Aviation crashed near Silver Plume, Colorado. It was one of two planes carrying the Wichita State University football team to Logan, Utah for a game against Utah State University
The Munich air disaster took place on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes", along with a number of supporters and journalists. 23 of the 44 people on board the aircraft died as a result of the crash.
Sabena Flight 548, registration OO-SJB, was a Boeing 707 aircraft en route from New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) to Brussels, Belgium’s Zaventem Airport on February 15, 1961. The flight crashed during the approach for landing. All 72 on board were killed, as was one person on the ground. The crash was the first fatal accident involving a Boeing 707 in regular passenger service.[1] Among the dead were the entire United States Figure Skating team, who were en route to the 1961 World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
On October 29, 1960, a chartered C-46 plane carrying the California Polytechnic State University football team, hours after a 50-6 loss to Bowling Green State University, crashed on takeoff at the Toledo Express Airport in Toledo, Ohio after the left engine lost power. Twenty-two of the forty-eight people on board were killed, including sixteen players, the team’s student manager and a Cal Poly football booster.
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February 21st, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Just a couple days ago the plane crash in Iran was carrying the Iranian Judo Team.
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February 21st, 2010 at 9:42 pm
in 1930 the Notre Dame football coach died in a boeing 247 airplane crash.
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http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com/pages/12953/Knute-Kenneth-Rockne.html
February 21st, 2010 at 9:48 pm
I’m not sure about pro teams but college teams are well represented, they include:
Marshall University-Football
Wichita State University-Football
Oklahoma State University-Mens basketball
Iowa State University-Womens cross country
University of Evansville-Mens basketball
Nobody cares about those other teams since they weren’t Americans.
Go Raiders
Go D-Backs
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