Plane crashes in football history
Rescue teams work in the recovery of the bodies of victims of the LAMIA airlines charter that crashed in the mountains of Cerro Gordo, municipality of La Union, Colombia, on November 29, 2016 carrying members of the Brazilian football team Chapecoense Real. PHOTO | RAUL ARBOLEDA |
What you need to know:
- On November 28, 2016, a charter plane carrying Brazil's Chapecoense runs out of fuel and crashes in the Andes mountains near Medellin, Colombia. Six survive, including three players, but 71 others, including 19 players, are killed.
- Chapecoense were en route to play the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final against Colombia's Atletico Nacional.
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Cardiff City's record new signing, Argentina-born striker Emiliano Sala, is feared missing in a plane crash, in the latest of a series of air disasters in the sport's history.
Here are others on that list:
On May 4, 1949, 18 players of the Torino football club, among the best in the world at the time, are killed along with 13 other people when their plane crashes into the Basilica of Superga, near Turin.
It is the first such tragedy to strike the world of football.
On February 6, 1958, a plane crash at Munich airport kills 23 people, including eight Manchester United players, known as the 'Busby Babes', along with three staff members.
England star Duncan Edwards is among those to perish, while Bobby Charlton -- who went on to win the World Cup with England -- is only slightly hurt.
Manager Matt Busby recovered from serious injuries and rebuilt United into a force that would win the European Cup a decade later, in 1968.
On April 3, 1961, an aircraft transporting part of Chile's Club de Deportes Green Cross crashes in the Andes, killing 24 people, among them eight players and two members of the coaching staff.
On December 8, 1987, 43 people die when a plane carrying the Alianza club of Lima goes down in the Pacific Ocean. Among the dead are 16 players and the team's coach.
On June 7, 1989, the crash of a Surinam Airways DC-8 flying from Amsterdam as it lands at Surinam's capital Paramaribo leaves 174 dead, including 15 Surinam-born Dutch footballers.
On April 27, 1993, a military aircraft carrying Zambia's national football team crashes into the sea shortly after take off from Gabon, en route to play Senegal in a World Cup qualifier, killing all 25 on board. The team was recognised as one of the strongest fielded by the African nation.
On October 22, 1996, Matthew Harding, vice-chairman of English Premier League football club Chelsea, dies when his helicopter comes down in poor weather as he returns from a League Cup win against Bolton Wanderers.
On November 28, 2016, a charter plane carrying Brazil's Chapecoense runs out of fuel and crashes in the Andes mountains near Medellin, Colombia. Six survive, including three players, but 71 others, including 19 players, are killed.
Chapecoense were en route to play the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final against Colombia's Atletico Nacional.
On October 27, 2018, Thai billionaire and Leicester City football club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash.
