Sports teams killed in plane crashes. Chapecoense players crashed due to engine shutdown

Brazilian football players lost their lives in a plane crash at their peak

A major plane crash occurred in Colombia: a plane crashed, carrying 72 passengers and 9 crew members, including the Brazilian football team Chapecoense. Together with the team, the son of Paulo Paixau, who coached CSKA Moscow, died. Anderson Paishau was 27 years old.

A rescue and search operation was launched in the area of the tragedy. From the rubble near the Colombian city of Medellin managed to extract a few survivors. Among them are the players who flew to the match in the South American Cup.

The media note that recently the team has been successful: for the first time since its inception, it entered the Brazilian first division. Shortly before the crash, the players were smiling and joking.

According to the police who worked at the scene of the tragedy, the death of 76 people was confirmed. Antioquia provincial police chief General José Acevedo said there was no hope of finding other survivors. Poor visibility remains in the crash area due to tropical rains that have been falling there over the past few days. The search was also complicated by the fact that the wreckage was located in a remote mountainous area.

It is reported that the crew before the crash contacted the airport, to which he was already approaching, and reported that there was a power failure on board and fuel was running out. Lack of fuel is considered one of the versions of the cause of the tragedy. According to the British tabloid Daily Mirror, the pilot managed to get rid of the remaining fuel seconds before the crash so that the fall did not provoke an explosion. Judging by the photo from the scene of the tragedy, the plane broke in two.

The crashed vessel (a British-made BAe 146 commercial mid-size jet) belonged to the Bolivian-Venezuelan charter airline Lamia.

The Chapecoense team of 22 people, as well as the coaches, journalists and guests who accompanied them, with the participation of the Colombian club Atlético Nacional. Athletes' Instagram accounts are full of funny photos taken at the airport and on the plane.

According to the Colombian English-language edition of The City Paper Bogota, the Brazilians flew first on Monday from Sao Paulo, made a stop in Bolivia and flew from Bolivian Santa Cruz to Medellin. About fifty kilometers remained before the destination when the crew reported an emergency on board.

At least three of the players survived: defender Alan Ruchel, 27, and goalkeepers Marcos Danilo Padilla, 31, and Jackson Vollmann, 24. Ruchel is known to have a broken hip and a head injury. The Daily Mirror notes that in the hospital in La Seja, he even found the strength to ask the doctors to look after his wedding ring. Flight attendant Jimena Suarez and Brazilian journalist Rafael Enze were also taken to the hospital. The Colombian civil aviation authority said that in addition to the three football players and the journalist, two crew members were found alive. But on the way to the hospital, one of the found people died.

From the MK dossier:

Plane crashes that killed athletes

February 6, 1958— the plane of the British airline British European Airwaysruen crashed after the third attempt to take off at the airport of Munich (Germany). On board were the players of the English football club Manchester United, as well as several coaches, fans and journalists. Of the 44 people on board, 23 were killed.

July 16, 1960- in the Danish city of Øresund, a plane crashed on which the players of the Danish national football team flew to the match. As a result of the crash, all 8 passengers died. The pilot miraculously survived.

August 11, 1979- in the USSR, as a result of a collision in the sky of two Tu-134 aircraft, 17 players and coaches of the Tashkent club Pakhtakor, flying to Minsk for the next match of the USSR championship, were killed.

June 7, 1989- when landing at the airport of Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname, the plane DC-8-62, which arrived from Amsterdam, crashed. Among the victims are 23 Dutch football players of Surinamese origin.

April 27, 1993- As a result of a plane crash in the sea off the coast of Gabon, 18 Zambia footballers were killed flying to qualifying match to the World Cup with the Senegal national team.

September 7, 2011- after takeoff from Yaroslavl airport, the Yak-42D plane crashed, on board of which was hockey team Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl). 44 people were killed (36 passengers and 8 crew members).

Help "MK": The Chapocoense Football Club came into existence in 1973 as a result of the merger of two teams, Atlético Chapocoense and Independente. It took less than 5 years for the club to become the winners of the Santa Catarina state championship and win the right to play in the top Brazilian division, in which, however, Chapocoense did not stay for a long time and the team took part in lower rank tournaments in subsequent years. In 2013, the club from Chapeco returned to the elite Brazilian division.

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There was a version that the plane crashed allegedly because the pilots did not have enough fuel to land. How is this possible? This question was answered by the former pilot of Aeroflot, a pilot with 45 years of experience Vladimir Salnikov:

The amount of refueling of the aircraft is selected taking into account the distance to the destination and the distance to the reserve airfield. So that suddenly, due to some reason - bad weather, unsuitability of the runway, other troubles - the commander had the opportunity to go to an alternate airfield.

But it happens when you come to an alternate airfield, and some kind of cloud also flies there and it starts to rain or snow, that is, the weather is not suitable for landing according to the conditions of the allowed minimum of the commander. It is in such a case that refueling should be enough to reach the reserve airfield plus 30 minutes. This general rule, fixed by ICAO standards.

During these 30 minutes you can walk in the waiting area, waiting for the weather. But if suddenly the weather still does not improve, then the commander is given the right to land the aircraft in violation of the landing minimum allowed to him. That is, the commander, as it were, is offered a choice: either to land in the mountains, in the steppe, or still at the airfield, where there are at least some landing systems.

At the same time, keep in mind: we, the pilots, work out situations of this kind on simulators. When we train, sometimes we are exposed to extreme weather conditions. That is, the pilot always has the opportunity, even if not 100%, but at least 90%, to try to apply these skills.

In my entire 45-year flying practice, I can recall about seven such cases when guys in our country came to an alternate airfield and were forced to land below their minimum while there was still fuel in the tanks. Yes, extreme conditions, but all the landings were successful. For skill and courage, such pilots were usually thanked, sometimes even awarded orders for making a competent decision.

Why the commander here did not decide to land at the alternate airfield, I do not know. If there was a very heavy downpour, then in this case, ICAO documents gave him the right to use the chance and land the plane in worse conditions than those in which he was prepared to fly. He did not take advantage of this opportunity. What he hoped for, I can’t understand, especially since everything happened in the mountains.

In this case, I would have made at least one attempt at a landing approach at an alternate airfield in a downpour, but I would definitely have tried to land. And even if the plane slid off the runway, rolled out somewhere, it's all the same. It is better to have light injuries, but live passengers on board, than to kill everyone. And when the fuel runs out, the pilot is already powerless, the plane becomes uncontrollable - it flies wherever God sends it.

On September 7, 2011, the Yak-42 aircraft of the Yak Service airline crashed on takeoff from the Tunoshna airport in the Yaroslavl region. On board the aircraft was the hockey team Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl), which flew to the match in Minsk. According to preliminary data, people on board.

July 15, 2009 A Tu-154M aircraft of the Iranian airline Caspian Airlines crashed in the north-west of Iran while flying from Tehran to Yerevan. Iran's youth judo team was on board the plane. The athletes flew to Armenia for training and then had to fly to Hungary to compete. All 168 people who made this flight died.

August 24, 2008 In Kyrgyzstan, a Boeing 737 plane crashed on its way from Bishkek to Tehran. There were 90 people on board, including 17 members of the Iranian youth volleyball team. Ten of them died. 25 passengers and crew members managed to escape.

April 27, 1993 A DHC-5 Buffalo jet carrying members of the Zambian football team crashed into the sea near Gabon, Africa. A total of 30 people died, including 18 footballers.

June 7, 1989 at the airport of the capital of Suriname Paramaribo ( South America) crashed a DC-8-60 aircraft, killing 23 Dutch footballers of Surinamese origin on board the crashed aircraft. A total of 176 people died (out of 187 passengers and crew members).

December 8, 1987 near the city of Lima (Peru), as a result of explosions on board an F-27 aircraft, the Alliance football team was killed in full force. The bodies of the dead could not be found, as the plane crashed into the sea. It is known that there were 43 people on the plane.

March 14, 1980 22 members of the US national boxing team were killed in a plane crash of a Polish Il-62 aircraft near Warsaw (Poland).

August 11, 1979 Over the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk (Ukraine), a Tu-134 aircraft flying Tashkent-Minsk collided with an aircraft flying from Chelyabinsk to Chisinau. 178 people (165 passengers and 13 crew members) were killed, from Uzbekistan, which was playing at that time in the major league. The team flew to Minsk to play with local Dynamo players.

November 29, 1975 Graham Hill's Formula One team, Embassy Racing with Graham Hill, died in a plane crash. The Piper Aztec, a six-seater aircraft that the team was returning from a race in France to London, crashed and burned on landing.

October 13, 1972 in the Andes on the way to the capital of Chile, the city of Santiago, part of the rugby team from Montevideo (Uruguay) died in a plane crash.

In total, 45 people were on board the FH-227 aircraft, 16 of them survived.

December 31, 1970 in a plane crash, an amateur football team from Algeria "Air Liquid" died in full force, heading to friendly match to Spain.

November 14, 1970 in Virginia (USA) in a plane crash killed 37 players of the Marshall University (Huntington, West Virginia) American football team. In addition to the athletes, there were members of the coaching staff, fans, as well as the head of the sports department (75 people in total) on board the aircraft. No one survived.

April 1, 1970 near Krasnoyarsk, an An-24 passenger plane crashed. All passengers (including the youth volleyball team) and crew members were killed.

September 26, 1969 in the Andes, on the way to La Paz (Bolivia), a plane with 25 players from the Bolivian football team "Strongest" crashed. 19 players and club leaders were killed.

April 3, 1961 Douglas C-47A crashed in the Cordillera, Chile. As a result of the disaster, everyone on board was killed - the Chilean football team "Green Cross" and crew members (24 people).

February 15, 1961 A Sabena Boeing 707 crashed while landing in Belgium on a New York-Brussels route. All 72 people on board were killed, as well as one person on the ground. The US figure skating team (34 athletes and coaches) died in the crash, which was heading to the World Championships in Prague (Czechoslovakia). World Championship figure skating 1961 was canceled as a sign of mourning for the dead.

February 6, 1958 At the airport in Munich (Germany), while trying to take off, a plane crashed, in which there were football players of the English team Manchester United. A total of 23 people on board were killed, including 8 athletes, a coach, a team secretary, one of the directors of Manchester United and eight sports correspondents.

January 5, 1950 during the third landing approach in difficult weather conditions in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), the Li-2 aircraft crashed. 8 hockey players of the USSR Air Force team, as well as a coach, a doctor and a massage therapist, were killed.

May 4, 1949 as a result of a plane crash near Turin (Italy), the entire team of the Torino football club and all the others on board the aircraft (including journalists, officials, coach) died. A total of 31 people died.

November 18, 1948 6 leading hockey players of the Czechoslovak national team (goalkeeper, defenders and forwards) died in a plane crash over the English Channel.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

Year: 1949

Dead: 31 people

Survivors: No

In the forties, the Turin bulls were the strongest club in Italy and one of the strongest in Europe. From 1942 to 1949 "Grande Torino" was the undisputed champion of Serie A, if you do not take into account the 1944 tournament, which was not recognized as official. By the time of the tragedy, 10 players of the national team played in the “burgundy”, including the captain of the “Azzurra Squadra” V. Mazzola.

On May 4, 1949, the team was returning home after a friendly game with Benfica, which took place in the capital of Portugal. The plane with the players on board after taking off from Lisbon landed in Barcelona to replenish fuel. In the capital of Catalonia, the Torino players met with the Milan players who were heading to Madrid, and as it turned out later, the Rossoneri representatives were the last to see the Burgundy alive. On approach to the destination, due to increased nebula, the pilot lost control of the aircraft and descended below the permissible limit, due to which the left wing touched the basilica built on a hill. As a result of this contact, the plane turned around and crashed into the ground at high speed. Of the 28 passengers (18 football players) and 4 crew members, no one survived.

This tragedy had a great impact on italian football. It took almost two decades for the Italian national team to return to the elite European football, and Torino lost the status of a top club forever.

"Manchester United"

Year: 1958

Dead: 23 people

Survivors: 21 people

By winning the English Championship in 1956, Manchester United, with the help of their mentor Matt Busby, secured permission to participate in the European Cup and became the first English club to play in a major European Cup. In the 1956/57 season, the Mancunians reached the semi-finals in the CC, and again won gold in the English Championship. The next season also started successfully for Manchester United. Busby's team was in the leading positions in the domestic championship, and reached the quarterfinals in the CC.

In the 1/4 finals of KCH 57/58, Manchester United had to play a two-legged duel with Red Star. The first meeting took place on January 14 in England and the Mancunians won it with a score of 2: 1. The return game took place on February 5 in Belgrade and the match ended in a 3-3 draw, which took Busby's team to the second semi-final of the CC in a row.

Returning from Belgrade, the plane with the crew on board landed in Munich for the purpose of refueling. Having replenished fuel supplies, the plane was supposed to immediately go to Manchester, but the takeoff was canceled due to engine problems. By that time, heavy snow had fallen and visibility had decreased, but the captain of the vessel decided to make another attempt to take off, despite the existing problems. Having entered the runway, the plane with Manchester United on board accelerated to a speed of 217 km / h, at which it was no longer possible to cancel the takeoff, but the pilots could not lift the car into the air. Leaving the runway, the plane rammed the runway guard at high speed and crashed into a residential building. The crash killed 8 football players, three members of the coaching staff and ten other passengers. Among the survivors were club coach Busby and striker Bobby Charlton, as well as other players.

Despite the death of eight players and injuries received by the rest of the team, Manchester United managed to finish the season and took second place in the English Championship, and the Mancunians lost to Milan in the semi-final of the Champions League. 10 years after the tragedy in Munich, Busby will lead Manchester United to the first European club title, and Charlton, who plays under his leadership, will receive the Golden Ball.

Danish Olympic team

Year: 1960

Dead: 23 people

Survivors: 21 people

In 1960, summer Olympic Games, and the Danish team was one of the participants in the Olympic football tournament. On July 16, eight members of the Danish Olympic team took off from Copenhagen in a small Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide, flown by 27-year-old pilot Stig Vindelev. A few minutes after takeoff, the pilot, in conditions of poor visibility, lost the horizon and the plane crashed into the water 50 meters from the coast near the city of Öresund.

Among the survivors were only pilot Vindelev and 21-year-old goalkeeper Per Funk Jensen, but the latter died on the way to the hospital. As a result of the disaster, Vindelev lost his leg and never again sat at the helm of an aircraft, becoming a physics teacher and inventor.

Immediately after the plane crash, the Danish Football Union decided to withdraw their team from the 1960 Olympics, but then this decision was canceled and the Danish team won the Olympic silver.

Year: 1961

Dead: 24 people

Survivors: No

In the spring of 1961, Chilean football lost the Green Cross team. On April 3, a Douglas C 47A aircraft carrying football players and coaches of the club flew from the city of Castro to Santiago, crashed in the Cordillera, and as a result, all 24 people on board were killed. The wreckage of the plane crashed in Chile was only found in 2015. The search expedition found only a part of the aircraft, which by that time was covered with a layer of earth and was not visible from the air.

Year: 1969

Dead: 74 people

Survivors: No

In 1969, the Bolivian Strongest club was returning to La Paz from the city of Santa Cruz, where an international friendly tournament was being held. The team was on board a Douglas DC-6B aircraft, which, including the players and coaches, carried 69 passengers. On September 26 at 14:10 local time, despite heavy snowfall, the plane left the Santa Cruz airport and headed towards the Andes. After 2 hours and 20 minutes after takeoff, the plane stopped communicating, after which a search operation was announced. The wreckage of the plane was discovered on the same day by a group of miners from the small village of Violko, and a rescue group went to the crash site. Upon arrival, rescuers found that of the 74 people on board, there were no survivors.

According to the results of the examination, it was found that the cause of the tragedy could be a fire. The pilots tried to make an emergency landing, but due to poor visibility caused by smoke and heavy snow, they crashed into a mountainside.

April 27, 1993 A DHC-5 Buffalo jet carrying members of the Zambian football team crashed into the sea near Gabon, Africa. A total of 30 people died, including 18 footballers.

June 7, 1989 At the airport of the capital of Suriname, Paramaribo (South America), a DC‑8‑60 series aircraft crashed, killing 23 Dutch football players of Surinamese origin who were on board the crashed aircraft. A total of 176 people died (out of 187 passengers and crew members).

March 14, 1980 22 members of the US national boxing team were killed in a plane crash of a Polish Il-62 aircraft near Warsaw (Poland).

October 13, 1972 in the Andes on the way to the capital of Chile, the city of Santiago, part of the rugby team from Montevideo (Uruguay) died in a plane crash.

In total, 45 people were on board the FH-227 aircraft, 16 of them survived.

December 31, 1970 In a plane crash, an amateur football team from Algeria "Air Liquid" died in full force, heading for a friendly match in Spain.

April 1, 1970 near Krasnoyarsk, an An-24 passenger plane crashed. All passengers (including the youth volleyball team) and crew members were killed.

September 26, 1969 in the Andes, on the way to La Paz (Bolivia), a plane with 25 players from the Bolivian football team "Strongest" crashed. 19 players and club leaders were killed.

April 3, 1961 Douglas C-47A crashed in the Cordillera, Chile. As a result of the disaster, everyone on board was killed - the Chilean football team "Green Cross" and crew members (24 people).

February 15, 1961 A Sabena Boeing 707 crashed while landing in Belgium on a New York-Brussels route. All 72 people on board were killed, as well as one person on the ground. The US figure skating team (34 athletes and coaches) died in the crash, which was heading to the World Championships in Prague (Czechoslovakia). The 1961 World Figure Skating Championships were canceled as a sign of grief for the dead.

November 18, 1948 6 leading hockey players of the Czechoslovak national team (goalkeeper, defenders and forwards) died in a plane crash over the English Channel.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

The Brazilian team Chapecoense was heading to Medellin for the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana against Colombian Atlético Nacional. For the not particularly shining Chapecoense, the game could become truly historic. But already on approach to Medellin, the crew reported a malfunction in electrical equipment. Airplane .

Juan Carlos de la Cuesta, president of the Atlético Nacional club: “We condole. We mourn deeply. We really hurt. At this moment, our hearts are with the Chapicoense club, with the families of its players, staff and management."

Unfortunately, Chapicoense is far from the only sport Team, who died in a plane crash almost at full strength. In 1958, the tragedy of Manchester United shook the world. And in the Soviet Union in 1979, the Tashkent football team Pakhtakor crashed. Tu-134, flying to Minsk for the next championship match, collided in the sky with another passenger plane due to an error of dispatchers. The tragedy claimed 178 lives.

Real Madrid honored the memory of the Brazilian Chapecoense with a minute of silence. And the fans of Atlético Nacional, who were preparing to cheer against the Brazilians, are now ready to dress themselves in the colors of failed rivals.

According to media reports, The team was going to arrive in Medellin by charter, but then plans changed. Nine players of the team, who have every reason to celebrate their second birthday on November 29th. And the son of the head coach did not get on the fatal flight, having forgotten his passport at home.

In Brazil announced three days of mourning. Medellin's Atlético Nacional have proposed declaring Chapecoense the winners of the Copa Sudamericana, notes NTV correspondent Harry Knyagnitsky.

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