On November 28, 2016, at 22:15 local time (06:15 Moscow time on November 29), while approaching the airport of the Colombian city of Medellin, a plane with 72 passengers and 9 crew members on board disappeared from the radar screens.

It soon became known that. According to preliminary data, the cause of the tragedy could be a lack of fuel.

Among the passengers were players and coaches of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense, who were heading to the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana of the Colombian team Atlético Nacional. Journalists from Brazil also flew with the players to cover the match.

According to rescuers, the fallen airliner did not explode, which allowed some of the people on board to survive. As of 11:15 Moscow time on November 29, it is not known exactly how many people survived and how many died. It is reported that Chapecoense players are among those taken to hospital. The South American Football Federation (CONMEBOL) has suspended all activities due to the plane crash. football matches and other events.

The history of sports, unfortunately, knows a number of plane crashes in which outstanding players and entire sports teams. AiF.ru remembered seven of them.

May 4, 1949. Death of the Torino football team

On May 4, 1949, while approaching the city of Turin, a three-engine Fiat G.212CP aircraft, in heavy fog, touched the fence of the Superga Basilica built on a hill with its left wing, after which it crashed into the ground at high speed.

On board the plane were football players from the Torino team, returning to Turin from Lisbon after the match with Benfica. Everyone on board died.

The Torino team was the strongest in Italy at that time. From 1946 to 1948, the Turin team consistently became champions of Italy.

There were four rounds left before the finish of the 1949 championship. In all these matches, youth and youth football players played for Torino. The rivals also entered juniors into the games as a sign of respect for the dead. As a result, Torino and its dead players again became national champions.

January 5, 1950. Death of the Air Force hockey team

On January 5, 1950, a Li-2 military transport plane crashed while landing in difficult weather conditions at the Sverdlovsk Koltsovo airport. All 19 people on board were killed. Among them were 11 hockey players, a doctor and a massage therapist for the Air Force team, which was flying to the USSR championship match against the Dzerzhinets team.

Among the dead were USSR national team goalkeeper Garry Melups, forwards Ivan Novikov and Zdenek Zikmund, brother of the legendary coach Anatoly Tarasov Yuri Tarasov.

One of the most famous people miraculously escaped death Soviet hockey players Vsevolod Bobrov. The forward was late for departure, although the plane was delayed for two hours because of him. Bobrov himself wrote that for the first time in his life his always working alarm clock failed him, and he overslept.

Patronized the Air Force team Vasily Stalin collected new line-up teams led by Bobrov, who won the USSR championship over the next three seasons.

February 6, 1958. Death of Manchester United football players

On February 6, 1958, the Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador of the British airline British European Airways, flying BE609 on the Belgrade-Munich-Manchester route, crashed after the third attempt to take off at Munich Airport.

Of the 44 people on board, 23 were killed and another 19 were injured.

The English football team Manchester United was returning home from Belgrade on this flight after a European Cup match.

The disaster killed 8 Manchester United players, three coaches and 8 journalists accompanying the team. Two more players finished due to injuries. football career. Legendary Mancunian coach Matt Busby was seriously wounded, but survived and was able to return to work.

In 1968, Busby led Manchester United to victory in the European Cup. Among the winners were two football players who survived the Munich plane crash - Bobby Charlton and Bill Foulkes.

February 15, 1961. Death of the US figure skating team

On February 15, 1961, Sabena Boeing 707-329, flight SN548 from New York to Brussels, crashed while landing at Brussels Zaventen Airport. All 72 people on board, as well as 1 person on the ground, were killed.

Among the dead were members of the US national team figure skating— 34 athletes and coaches heading to the World Championships in Prague.

As a sign of respect and sorrow for the dead International Union Speed ​​skaters decided to cancel the World Championships in 1961.

August 11, 1979. Death of the Pakhtakor football team

On August 11, 1979, in the sky above Dneprodzerzhinsk at an altitude of 8400 m, two Tu-134A airliners of Aeroflot airlines collided (flights 7628 Chelyabinsk - Voronezh - Chisinau and 7880 Tashkent - Guryev - Donetsk - Minsk). There were 178 people on board the liners, all of them died.

Flight 7880 carried 14 football players, a coach, an administrator and a doctor of the Pakhtakor (Tashkent) football team. They were heading to Minsk for a USSR championship match with the local Dynamo.

Among the dead were players of the USSR national team Mikhail An and Vladimir Fedorov. The latter, as a member of the USSR Olympic team, won a bronze medal at the Games in Montreal in 1976.

Pakhtakor, which had lost players, was reinforced by players from other teams of the union championship. An article was introduced into the regulations of the USSR football championship according to which for 3 years, regardless of the results, Pakhtakor retained its place in the major league.

April 27, 1993. Death of the Zambia national football team

On April 27, 1993, a Buffalo DHC-5D (AF-319) military aircraft carrying the Zambian national team to meet Senegal in a qualifying tournament for the 1994 FIFA World Cup crashed into the sea off the coast of Gabon. All 30 people on board were killed.

In addition to 18 football players, they also died Zambia Football Federation President Michael Mwape, and also head coach Godfrey Chitalu. Chitalu, when he was a player, participated in football tournament 1980 Olympics and even scored a goal against the USSR national team.

September 7, 2011. Death of the Lokomotiv hockey team

On September 7, 2011, the Yak-42D airliner of Yak Service airlines, performing international charter flight AKY 9633 from Yaroslavl to Minsk, crashed immediately after takeoff. On board, in addition to the crew members, were hockey players, coaches and technical staff of the Lokomotiv team (Yaroslavl), who were flying to the KHL championship match with Dynamo Minsk.

Of the 45 people on board, two survived the fall - aviation and radio maintenance engineer Alexander Sizov and hockey player Alexander Galimov. Doctors fought for Galimov’s life for five days, but on September 12 he died in a Moscow hospital.

Among the dead were 26 hockey players, 4 coaches, as well as a doctor, administrator and massage therapists. Among them were citizens of Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Ukraine, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Slovakia, winners of the most prestigious world hockey tournaments - world champions, Olympic Games, Stanley Cup winners. There were also very young guys who won the World Youth Championship in January 2011 as part of the Russian national team. The death of Lokomotiv was one of the most terrible tragedies in the history of world hockey.

"Torino" was the strongest club Italy and one of the best in Europe. The team was returning from Lisbon, where they played Benfica. The disaster occurred near Turin, everyone on board, including the crew, died, including 18 football players.

Torino has not yet recovered from the consequences of this tragedy. For more than 60 years, the club has won the championship only once and won the Italian Cup twice, while spending 11 seasons in Serie B.

Manchester United

• Date: February 6, 1958.
• Number of deaths: 23 people.

Matt Busby's legendary team were returning from Belgrade from the second leg of the Champions Cup quarter-final against Red Star. The plane landed to refuel in Munich and then tried to take off, but two attempts were unsuccessful.

However, a third attempt was made, during which the plane left the runway at speed and crashed into a house. As a result of the impact and the resulting fire, 23 people died, including 8 “Busby babies.”

"Pakhtakor"

• Date: August 11, 1979.
• Number of deaths: 178 people.

A terrible disaster occurred over Dneprodzerzhinsk (now Kamenskoye) in the Dnepropetrovsk region of Ukraine. Large quantity casualties are explained by the fact that two TU-134 aircraft collided in the sky.

Among the dead were 14 Pakhtakor players, a doctor, an administrator and the team’s second coach, who were flying to Minsk for a championship match. After the tragedy, the Uzbek club received reinforcements from other teams, and the USSR Football Federation “insured” Pakhtakor against relegation from the major league for three years.

"Alianza Lima"

• Date: December 7, 1987.
• Number of deaths: 43 people.

The team of one of the most famous football clubs died under mysterious circumstances - for unknown reasons, the plane broke up during a flight at sea. The only survivor, the pilot of the aircraft, did not help clarify the causes of the tragedy.

As a result, Alianza Lima ended the championship with a youth team, since the entire base flew on that ill-fated flight.

Dutch from Suriname

• Date: June 7, 1989.
• Number of deaths: 176 people.

These guys were playing different clubs and went to their historical homeland in order to take part in a local tournament like a hodgepodge - a kind of tribute to the land of their ancestors. There were 23 players in total on the team.

Due to an error by the pilots during landing, the plane hit a tree with its wing. Only 11 people survived, but there were no football players among them. And they were supposed to fly to this tournament, but the clubs didn’t let them go at the last moment.

Zambia national team

• Date: April 27, 1993.
• Number of deaths: 26 people.

The Zambian team flew to qualifying match World Cup 1994, and the flight was organized by the country's air force. During the flight, the engine caught fire and the plane crashed into the water.

There were no survivors in this disaster; among the dead were 18 national team players, two coaches, the president of the football federation and 5 crew members.

Chapecoense

• Date: November 28, 2016.
• Number of deaths: 86 people.

The Brazilian team was flying to Colombia for the first match of the Copa Sudamericana final against Atlético Nacional. While approaching Medellin airport, the plane crashed into a mountain. Only six people survived the disaster, one of whom, goalkeeper Danilo, later died in hospital.

At the suggestion of Atlético Nacional, COMNEBOL declared Chapecoense winners of the Copa Sudamericana.

The last two tragedies are separated by almost a quarter of a century. May the next break be eternal.

On Tuesday, November 29, a plane crashed in the province of Antioquia in Colombia, carrying 81 people, including football players. Brazilian club Chapecoense, performing in top division national championship. Lenta.ru recalls other plane crashes that cost the lives of entire sports teams.

FC Torino, 4 May 1949

Turin "Torino" at that time was considered the grandee of Italian football. Club owner Ferrucio Novo made the search for football talent professional, and after the end of World War II the team won the national championship three times in a row (1946, 1947, 1948).

The tragedy happened when the Turin residents were returning from Lisbon, where they spent friendly match with local Benfica (3:4). The three-engine Fiat G.212CP plane crashed due to a pilot error who lost control in bad weather conditions. There was very little time left before landing when the plane’s wing touched the fence of the Superga Basilica built on a hill. The car spun and crashed into the ground at high speed. There were 31 people on board, all died. From the main squad of the team, only one player survived - Lauro Toma, who did not fly to Portugal due to injury.

Manchester United FC, 6 February 1958

The Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador airliner of the British airline British European Airways with English Manchester United football players on board crashed at Munich airport. In total, there were 44 people on the plane - players, coaches, journalists.

Manchester United was returning from Belgrade, where they played a European Cup match against the local Red Star. The plane refueled in Munich, but was unable to take off twice due to heavy snowfall. The crew commander decided to make another attempt, the plane did not gain the required speed, rolled off the runway and crashed into a wooden hangar in which a truck with fuel was parked. There was an explosion. 21 people died on the spot.

FC Pakhtakor, August 11, 1979

By the end of the 1970s, Tashkent Pakhtakor was one of the most popular Soviet football clubs. On August 11, 1979, an Aeroflot TU-134 aircraft, carrying 14 players, a second coach, an administrator and a team doctor, was flying from Tashkent to Minsk. “Pakhtakor” was facing a USSR championship match with “Dynamo” Minsk.

The tragedy occurred in the sky over Dneprodzerzhinsk. An inexperienced air traffic controller noticed late that the plane was dangerously close in the air to another TU-134 flying from Chelyabinsk to Chisinau. The pilots were given the command to disperse, but they did not have time to react. The wing of one of the planes pierced the fuselage of another, and both cars exploded in the air. 178 passengers on both flights, including 17 Pakhtakor players and coaches, died.

12 days after the disaster, the surviving Pakhtakor players continued to play in the USSR Championship, thus paying tribute to their fallen teammates.

Zambia national football team, 27 April 1993

The country's football team had an away match qualifying tournament for the 1994 World Cup with Senegal. Due to funding cuts, the team was forced to lease a Buffalo DHC-5D aircraft owned by the Zambian Air Force. As the car flew over the coast of Gabon, one of the engines caught fire. The plane lost control and crashed into the sea. All 30 people on board, including 18 football players, were killed.

The tragedy united the Zambian team. In 1994 the team won silver, and in 1996 - bronze medals African Cup of Nations.

HC Lokomotiv, September 7, 2011

Yaroslavl "Lokomotiv" was heading to Minsk for a match of the regular championship of the Kontinental Hockey League with the local "Dynamo". The game, scheduled for September 8, was supposed to be the first for the Yaroslavl team in the new season.

The Yak-42 aircraft took off at Yaroslavl Tunoshna airport. The airliner was unable to reach a safe altitude (it rose 5-6 meters), crashed into a lighthouse antenna 435 meters from the runway and crashed to the ground. There were 45 people on board the plane, 43 died on the spot.

Sitting in the back of the cabin were 26-year-old railway striker Alexander Galimov and aviation and radio-electronic equipment engineer Alexander Sizov. Both were not wearing seat belts, and during the crash they were thrown into the Tunoshonka River. When the athlete was found, he was conscious and was able to give his name to the police. He was hospitalized at the Research Institute named after A.V. Vishnevsky with burns to 90 percent of his body. Five days later he died.

Sizov was hospitalized with burns to 15 percent of his body, fractures of both hips, calvarium, ribs and injuries chest. On the day of the tragedy, he and Galimov were transported to Moscow on an Emergencies Ministry plane. At the Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, the victim was put into medicated sleep to avoid shock. Sizov recovered and then worked as an aircraft technician at the Yakovlev Design Bureau in Zhukovsky.

Lokomotiv was forced to spend one season in the Supreme hockey league(VHL), after which he returned to the KHL.

Ordinary Yaroslavl hockey fans and caring people across the country, as well as relatives and friends of the victims of the Yak-42 disaster in which it crashed, are remembering the departed athletes on Wednesday. 43 people died immediately; the player, who received significant burns, died in the hospital five days later. Only the flight engineer survived the crash.

“When I’m here, I constantly hope for a miracle, that Max is about to come out from around the corner, and other guys will appear behind him...” - these words about the memorial erected in memory of the victims belong to Svetlana Shuvalova, his mother young hockey player Lokomotiv, who was on board that day, was only 18 years old.

The news of the tragedy occurred hockey world during the New Opening Cup KHL season between Salavat Yulaev and Atlant. “We had a terrible tragedy today. While taking off from Yaroslavl for a match with Dynamo Minsk, a plane carrying players, coaches and administrators of the Lokomotiv team crashed. According to the data currently available, out of 37 people, one survived. I propose to honor the memory of the victims with a minute of silence...” - these words of the league president, uttered with difficulty and incredible pain in his voice during the start of the season, are still remembered by many.

On Memorial Day in 2016, many remember that tragedy. “Five years have passed, and I still can’t believe it. "Locomotive". We remember,” says a message on the official account of the Russian Hockey Federation (RHF) on Twitter.

A number of events are taking place in Yaroslavl today in memory of lost team. In the morning, a memorial service took place in the Assumption Cathedral of the city. Yaroslavl residents and guests of the city carried flowers to the Leontyevskoe cemetery, to the Hockey Brotherhood monument and the memorial complex in Tunoshna.

Many people paid tribute to the memory of the fallen hockey players on Wednesday. KHL clubs. Among those who left their condolences were representatives of Dynamo Minsk, CSKA Moscow, Ekaterinburg Avtomobilist, Kazan Ak Bars, Magnitogorsk Metallurg, Novosibirsk Sibir, Khanty-Mansiysk Ugra, Nizhnekamsk Neftekhimik ", Novokuznetsk "Metallurg", Khabarovsk "Amur", Vladivostok "Admiral", Astana "Barys", Moscow "Dynamo" and Omsk "Avangard". Moscow also remembered the tragedy football club"Locomotive".

In Omsk home arena Avangard artist Marat Abishev painted graffiti in honor of deceased goalkeeper Alexander Vyukhin, who played for the Hawks from 1994 to 2003.

Hockey player Alexander Ovechkin paid tribute to the memory of the victims. The captain of the Russian national team left a post and photo with the memorial in Yaroslavl on his Instagram account.

The plane carrying the team crashed on September 7 at Tunoshna airport immediately after takeoff. 43 people died on the spot. Hockey player Alexander Galimov died on the morning of September 12. Only flight engineer Alexander Sizov was able to survive the disaster.

In addition to Galimov and Sizov, there were 25 players on the plane: Vitaly Anikeenko, Mikhail Balandin, Alexander Vasyunov, Josef Vashichek, Alexander Vyukhin, Pavol Demitra, Robert Dietrich, Marat Kalimulin, Alexander Kalyanin, Andrey Kiryukhin, Nikita Klyukin, Stefan Liv, Jan Marek, Sergey Ostapchuk, Karel Rakhunek, Ruslan Salei, Karlis Skrastins, Pavel Snurnitsyn, Daniil Sobchenko, Ivan Tkachenko, Pavel Trakhanov, Yuri Urychev, Gennady Churilov, Maxim Shuvalov, Artem Yarchuk.

At the time of the disaster, head coach Brad McCrimmon and his assistants were on board: Igor Korolev, Alexander Karpovtsev and Nikolai Krivonosov, Yuri Bakhvalov, Alexander Belyaev, Andrey Zimin, Evgeny Kunnov, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Vladimir Piskunov and Evgeny Sidorov. Among the dead were seven members of the crew: Andrei Solomentsev, Igor Zhivelov, Sergei Zhuravlev, Elena Sarmatova, Nadezhda Maksumova, Elena Shavina and Vladimir Matyushin.

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