Sporting Teams
| Name | Nationality | Year | Description of Members | Flight/Aircraft | Location | Cause/Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alianza Lima | PER | 1987 | 43 fatalities, including 16 players (of whom several composed the Peruvian national football team during that time), praised Peruvian coach Marcos Calderon, staff, cheerleaders, and crewmembers, with the exception of one survivor (the plane pilot) | Fokker F27-400M | In the Pacific Ocean, six miles from Ventanilla, Callao, Peru | Malfunctioning indicator |
| Apex Motorsports | UK | 2008 | Three people total: team manager Richard Lloyd, driver David Leslie and a data engineer. | Cessna Citation 501 | Farnborough, London | 2008 Farnborough plane crash |
| Bulgarian rhythmic gymnastics women's team | BUL | 1978 | Trainer Juliet Shishmanova, Rumyana Stefanova, Valentina Petrova Albena Kirilova, Snezhana Mikhailova and Popova Sevdalina. | Tupolev Tu-134 | 1978 Balkan Bulgarian Tupolev Tu-134 crash | |
| Cuban national fencing team | CUB | 1976 | all 24 members of the team, trainers and the coach | Cubana Flight 455 | ||
| Cal Poly San Luis Obispo | USA | 1960 | 16 members of the American football team and six others | Cal Poly football team plane crash | ||
| Embassy Hill | UK | 1975 | six people total, including former F1 world champion Graham Hill, driver Tony Brise, team manager Ray Brimble, two mechanics and designer Andy Smallman. | Piper Aztec | Arkley | |
| University of Evansville basketball team | USA | 1977 | 29 players, staff and fans | Douglas DC-3 | ||
| Hendrick Motorsports | USA | 2004 | 10 people associated with the team, including family, team crew, and pilots | 2004 Martinsville plane crash | ||
| Iowa State University cross country women's team | USA | 1985 | 7 people associated with the team, including 3 runners, 3 coaches/staff, and pilots | |||
| Lokomotiv Yaroslavl | RUS | 2011 | 36 players and head coach Brad McCrimmon | Yakovlev Yak-42 | Near Yaroslavl, Russia | 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster |
| Manchester United | UK | 1958 | 23 people total; including eight footballers: Geoff Bent, Roger Byrne, Eddie Colman, Duncan Edwards, Mark Jones, David Pegg, Tommy Taylor, and Billy Whelan; coach Bert Whalley, trainer Tom Curry, and club secretary Walter Crickmer. | Airspeed Ambassador | Munich-Riem Airport | Munich air disaster |
| Marshall University football team | USA | 1970 | 35 players, eight coaches, and 25 boosters | Southern Airways Flight 932 | ||
| Oklahoma State University | USA | 2001 | ten people associated with men's basketball team (including two players) | Beechcraft Super King Air | ||
| Old Christians Club rugby team | URU | 1972 | 24 of 40 team members; basis for 1974 film, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors where survivors resorted to cannibalism | Fairchild FH-227 | Andes | Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. |
| FC Pakhtakor Tashkent | UZB | 1979 | 17 players | Tupolev Tu-134 | In the air above Dniprodzerzhynsk | 1979 Ukraine Aeroflot mid-air collision |
| Puerto Rico national women's volleyball team | PRI | 1970 | most members of the team | Dominicana de Aviación McDonnell Douglas DC-9 | ||
| Saskatchewan Roughriders | CAN | 1956 | five players returning from Vancouver | Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 | ||
| Suriname national football team | SUR | 1989 | fourteen players and a coach: Ruud Degenaar, Lloyd Doesburg, Steve van Dorpel, Wendel Fräser, Frits Goodings, Jerry Haatrecht, Virgall Joemankhan, Andro Knel, Ruben Kogeldans, Ortwin Linger, Fred Patrick, Andy Scharmin, Elfried Veldman, Florian Vijent and Nick Stienstra (coach) | Surinam Airways Flight PY764 | ||
| A.C. Torino | ITA | 1949 | 18 players, club officials, and journalists | Superga air disaster | ||
| U.S. Olympic boxing team | USA | 1980 | all team members except for Bobby Czyz, Marvis Frazier and Lee Roy Murphy | LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 | ||
| USAC officials | USA | 1978 | 8 lead officials | Piper Navajo | ||
| U.S. Figure Skating team | USA | 1961 | all 18 skaters, coaches, and judges | Sabena Flight 548 | Brussels, Belgium | Possible failure of flight controls |
| Wichita State University football team | USA | 1970 | 31 players, coaches and supporters | Martin 4-0-4 | Silver Plume, Colorado | Wichita State University football team plane crash |
| Zambia national football team | ZAM | 1993 | All 18 footballers, including Efford Chabala and Wisdom Mumba Chansa | de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo | Libreville, Gabon | Gabon air disaster |
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