Colombia plane crash: List of sports teams involved in fatal aviation disasters

Members of Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense were among 81 people aboard a chartered aircraft that crashed late Monday in Medellin, Colombia. It is the latest incident in a tragic list of sports teams involved in fatal plane crashes.

Members of Brazilian soccer team among 81 people aboard aircraft that crashed Monday

The Associated Press · Posted: Nov 29, 2016 9:24 AM EST | Last Updated: November 29, 2016

Players of Brazil's Chapecoense celebrate at the end of a Copa Sudamericana semifinal soccer match on Wednesday against Argentina's San Lorenzo in Chapeco, Brazil. A chartered aircraft with 81 people on board, including members of Chapecoense soccer, crashed Monday on its way to Medellin, Colombia. (Andre Penner/Associated Press)

Members of Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense were among 81 people on board a chartered aircraft that crashed late Monday in Medellin, Colombia.

It was not immediately clear how many players were among the casualties, but more than 70 people were killed.

Here's a look at other sports teams that have been involved in fatal plane crashes:

Nov. 8, 1948

Czechoslovak national team hockey team, five members including IIHF Hall of Famer Ladislav Trojak, in the English Channel.

May 4, 1949

Italian soccer club Turin. The four-time league champions lost 22 members, including 18 players, in Turin, Italy.

Jan. 7, 1950

Moscow VVS ice hockey team, 11 players, near Sverdlovsk.

Dec. 9, 1956

All 62 people aboard Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 810 were killed, including five Canadian Football League players.

Feb. 6, 1958

English soccer champion Manchester United, eight members, in Munich.

In this Feb. 1958 file photo, snow falls on the wreck of British European Airways Flight 609 which crashed on take-off at Munich, Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team. (Associated Press)

Aug. 14, 1958

Egyptian fencing team, six members, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Oct. 10, 1960

Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo football team, 16 members, in Toledo, Ohio.

Feb. 16, 1961

U.S. figure skating team, 18 members and 10 coaches and officials, in Belgium.

Members of the U. S. Figure Skating Team pose before boarding Belgian Sabena airline plane at Idlewild airport New York. The plane crashed on Feb. 15, 1961, near the Brussels, Belgium Airport killing all on board. (Matty Zimmerman/Associated Press)

April 3, 1961

Green Cross, eight members of the first-division Chilean soccer team plus two members of the coaching staff, in the Las Lastimas Mountains.

April 28, 1968

Lamar Tech track team, five members and the coach, in Beaumont, Texas.

Sept. 26, 1969

Bolivian soccer team "The Strongest," coach Eustaquio Ortuno, 16 players and two staff members, near Viloco, Bolivia.

Oct. 2, 1970

Wichita State football team, 14 players, in Colorado.

Nov. 14, 1970

Marshall University football team, 36 players, in Huntington, West Virginia

A fireman on Nov. 15, 1970, looks over the wreckage of a DC-9 jet that crashed the day before on approach near a mountaintop airport a few miles from Huntington, W.Va. The plane was carrying the Marshall University football team who were returning after a game against East Carolina. (Associated Press)

Oct. 13, 1972

Uruguayan rugby club, among the 29 casualties, in the Andes, Chile.

Dec. 13, 1977

University of Evansville men's basketball coach Bobby Watson and 14 players, in Evansville, Indiana

March 14, 1980

U.S. amateur boxing team, 14 members, in Warsaw, Poland.

Nov. 25, 1985

Iowa State women's cross country team, coach Ron Renko, assistant coach Pat Moynihan, and team members Julie Rose, Susan Baxter and Sheryl Maahs, in Des Moines, Iowa.

This Nov. 28, 1985, photo shows the wreckage of a twin-engine plane that crashed in a Des Moines neighbourhood. The fiery crash on Nov. 25, killed three runners, two coaches, an athletic trainer and the pilot from Iowa State University’s women’s cross country team, just hours after a surprising second place finish at a championship meet. (Gary Fandel/The Register via AP)

Dec. 8, 1987

Peruvian first-division soccer team Alianza Lima, coach Marcos Calderon and 16 players, in Lima, Peru.

April 28, 1993

Zambia's national soccer team, 18 players and five team officials, in Libreville, Gabon.

Zambia's players hold a banner in memory of the 1993 plane crash that killed the Zambia team in Gabon, as they celebrate their victory of the African Cup of Nations after their final soccer match against Ivory Coast at Stade de l'Amitie in Libreville, Gabon, in February 2012. (Francois Mori/Associated Press)

Jan. 27, 2001

Oklahoma State basketball players Dan Lawson and Nate Fleming, and six team staffers and broadcasters, in Byers, Colorado.

Sept. 7, 2011

Russian hockey team Lokomotiv, 27 players, two coaches and seven club officials, in Tunoshna, Russia.

Divers search for flight recorders amid the wreckage of an airliner that crashed near Yaroslavl, Russia, in September 2011, killing 43 people including most of one of Russia's premier hockey teams.

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