Munich Air Disaster - Similar Incidents

Similar Incidents

Due to the frequent travel of sports teams, a significant number of crashes have involved such groups:

• The 1949 crash at Superga, where the Torino F.C. side known as Il Grande Torino that dominated post-war Italian football was wiped out. 18 players died, along with five club officials. All 31 people on the plane died.
• In 1960, a chartered C-46 Commando crashed, killing a group of American football players from California Polytechnic State University.
• In 1961, the entire United States Figure Skating team died in the crash of Sabena Flight 548.
• A 1970 crash in Colorado that killed a group of American football players from Wichita State University.
• The 1970 crash of Southern Airways Flight 932 that killed a group of American football players from Marshall University.
• The 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains that killed a number of rugby players from Uruguay. (Some survivors were rescued more than two months later.)
• The 1977 crash of a chartered DC-3 carrying the entire University of Evansville men's basketball team, in a field near the Evansville, Indiana airport.
• The 1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision, killing seventeen Pakhtakor Soviet football team players and staff members.
• In 1987, the entire roster of Peruvian football team Alianza Lima died in an air crash which claimed a total of 43 lives; the only survivor being a member of the crew.
• The 1989 crash of Surinam Airways Flight 764 killed 15 of Surinamese players known as "The Colorful 11", whose members played professional football in the Netherlands. A total of 176 people were killed and just 11 survived.
• A 1993 crash in the Atlantic offshore of Gabon killed 18 members of the Zambia national football team. There were no survivors among the total of 30 people on board.
• A 2001 Oklahoma State basketball team plane crash in Colorado killed two Oklahoma State University basketball players and eight other individuals associated with the team.
• The 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster killed the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League ice hockey team.