sports team air tragedies

4 May, 1949 – Italian football club Torino lost 22 people, including 18 players, in Turin.

6 February, 1958 – Eight killed in Manchester United plane crash in Munich.

16 February, 1961 – 18 members of US figure skating team killed in Belgium.

3 April, 1961 – Chilean football team Green Cross wiped out in Las Lastimas Mountains.

26 September, 1969 – Bolivian football team “The Strongest” had 25 killed in the Andes.

11 October, 1972 – Uruguayan rugby club lost 30 members in Chile.

14 March, 1980 – 14 members of US amateur boxing team killed in Warsaw, Poland.

8 December, 1987 – 17 players from Peruvian football team Alianza killed in Lima.

28 April, 1993 – 18 players and five officials from Zambia’s national football team killed in Gabon.