Football and history of plane crashes

We review in this installment the history of the unfortunate accidents toéprisoners Where F teamsúTol have been involved. Photo crésaid to Graham.

The teams that did not go to the World Cup in Uruguay 1930 declined, fundamentally, Because you don't want toíto make a trip from 30 díAS de Ida y 30 back from europe. Such justificationón práCtica was diluted over time, When transportation toéreplacement inmateó gradually to the seaíTimo as the main means of intercontinental transportation.

Post written by: Esteban Ávila
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To Brazil 1950, European teams moved to Avión. Everyone, minus Italy, that two toñyou before habíThe tragedy of the Torino lived. Aún beaten by the accident in Superga (1949), the Azzurri made the journey from Naples to the port of Santos on the ship Sises. It was a month to go and another month to return, where only podíAn training on deck. From Switzerland 1954 until today, Never máS came backó To travel a selected boat World Cup.

FúTol and accidentséprisoners

Since we started the story aroundí, The first major accident was precisely superior toéI pray that wrappingó to a F teamútbol, account that had its sad continuity this Sunday 24 January 2021, With what happenedó With the Palmas of Brazil. ¿Whaté sad events have wrapped to FúTBOL AND AVIATIONón?

superga, closeíAS of Turín, 5 May 1949

the grandfatheróN Fiat G.212 was looking to land at Turín. VeníThrough Lisbon the Torino team, What a jugó A friendly with Benfica. An error in the AltíMetro de la Nave Preventió that the pilot takes into account the nearbyíA from the bottomíSuperga Lica and crashedó Shortly after landing with that building. They died 31 people on board, 18 of them were members of the first team, spaghettién Died crewón, managers, t bodyéCnico and members of the press. 10 of the players were headlines of the selectionón of Italy.

Munich, 6 February 1958

After qualifying for the semi-finals of the European Cup (hoy Champions League), the Manchester United team was returning to England from Belgrade, Where minó With the red star. the first stretch, from the capital of the then Yugoslavia to Munich, it was normal. Nevertheless, the runway at Riem airport was frozen and, after two failed takeoff attempts, the grandfatherón Airspeed AS57 Ambassador, de la British European Airways, crashedó With a buildingón abandoned. The investigationówoó James pilot errors, same that were contrasted with the state of the track and the Avi wingsón. Thain was one of the 21 survivors, while they died 8 players, 3 body membersécynical, 8 journalists and 3 crew membersón.

Viloco, closeías of peace, 26 September 1969

Un Douglas DC-6, de Lloyd AéBolivian language, salió at 14:00 from Santa Cruz to La Paz. I was traveling ahí The Strongest team, what's upíA friendly tournament played. The ship loseó All contact, with both the departure airport and the destination airport. Al díto next, and after versions of inhabitants of the area, It wasó The wrecked ship. There were no survivors and all died. 74 passengers, between players, t bodyécynical, managers and crewón. Mortal remains delayed three DíAs to be fully located. The cause of the accident was impact against the land without Péship control.

Dniprodzherzhynsk, Unión Agreeéethics (today ukraine), 11 august 1979

Two Tupolev aircraft, a 134A and a 134AK, both from Aeroflot, collided in midair. The notice tower notó that both planes crossed and orderó that the 134AK ascended from the 7900 until the 9000. Nevertheless, it was too late to avoid the crash. One of the impact aircraftó With its wing the front of the fuselage of the other and the tragedy occurred. 19 died  Players and demás members of the delegationón del Pakhtakor Tashkent, REGI teamón of Uzbekistan, that played in the First División of the unión Agreeéethics. Total, on both aircraft, they died 178 people.

Window, closeíAs of Callao, Perú, 8 from December to 1987

Was a díA from Holiday and the Lima Alliance team returned from Pucallpa (regióprayeróniche of Perú), having won a local tournament match. the grandfatheróN Fokker F-27 was about to land at Jorge Ch airportáturn, But when establishing the úlast turn to the track, at the sea level of Ventanilla, if I lostó All contact. Al díto next, day búSqueda paid off by finding the pilot Edilberto Villar alive. Nevertheless, the rest of the 43 passengers died and the bodies of 4 Jam playersás were returned by the sea. The causes of the accident have always remained on the threshold of the Polémica, más aún with the posterior disappearanceóN of the scene PúPilot's blica.

Librevile, Gabón, 27 april 1993

Zambia enjoyed the best generationón of football players in its history. The «wasps» were  lists to make the big leap to the World Cupútbol. Precisely, in full African qualifiers heading to the USA 1994, debíto travel to Dakar, to play with Senegal. They took an avión Dec 5D buffalo, that after three scales shouldíto leave them at the headquarters of the match. the grandfatherón presentó Problems on the first scale (Brazzaville, Congo) and when taking off from the second (Libreville, Gabón) se detectó a fire in one of the engines, that the pilot searchó counteract off the other. Nevertheless, the ship loseó power and endó precipitáNando to the sea. 20 añundress themés, the investigationón informó About señdefective wings on the panel. all died 30 occupants (25 Players and body técynical, 5 crew membersón). Kalusha Bwalya y Charles Musonda, The players más known, they survived because they were going to travel on their own to Dakar.

The Unión, Antioquia, Colombia, 28 November 2016

La delegationón del chapecoenseía a Medellín to play your first international final, the South American Cup, in front of ATLéNational Tico of Colombia. An Avro RJ85, Compaly chattedñíA Bolivian Lamia, crashedó near Rionegro airport, in the paisa capital. They left from Sao Paulo, In flight of Boliviana de Aviación, to Santa Cruz, where in Viru Viru they took the Lamia charter, that was prevented from flying directly from Brazil to Colombia by international regulations. Fuel and occupation problemsón of the track caused the avro to rush when the passengers hadíIt has been called to place themselves in their positions and land. passed away 71 occupants, they survived 6 (Two crew membersón, three players and a journalist).

National Port, Amaz state municipalityóNico de Tocantins, 24 of January of 2021

The final destination was Goiania, Where the team playíagainst Vila Nova by La Copa Verde. With researchón and curso, An unfortunate new accident toéreo enlutó Al fúWorld Tol when avión Beechcraft B55 matríCula PT-LYG will accident minutes afterés of having taken off with four players and the president of the Palmas F teamúTol and regattas, confirmáThe death of all their occupants.