List of accidents involving sports teams

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This is a list of accidents where parts of or all of a major sports team has been a victim or killed.

Aviation accidents

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Date Team Sport Airline Aircraft Location Fatalities Members Description Ref
8 November 1948 Czechoslovakia national ice hockey team Ice hockey Mercure Beechcraft Model 18 France Dieppe, France 8 6 Six players on the way to an exhibition tour in the UK were killed in the plane crash of a charter flight from Paris to London while eight other players were opening the tour at Wembley. [1][2][3]
4 May 1949 Torino A.C. Association football Avio Linee Italiane Fiat G212CP Italy Turin, Italy 31 23 Most of the senior squad killed
5 January 1950 VVS Moscow Ice hockey Soviet Air Force Lisunov Li-2 Soviet Union Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union 19 11 Almost the entire team killed in a crash near today's Yekaterinburg, Russia
24 November 1956 TJ Baník Chomutov Ice hockey Czechoslovak Airlines Ilyushin Il-12B Switzerland Eglisau, Switzerland 23 5 Three players, two top club officials and a reporter were among others on board of OK-DBP on scheduled flight from Zurich to Prague, which crashed in fields after an engine failure. Nobody on board survived. [4]
9 December 1956 Saskatchewan Roughriders
Winnipeg Blue Bombers		 Canadian football Trans-Canada Air Lines Canadair North Star Canada Chilliwack, Canada 62 5 Five players were killed returning from the country's professional All-Star Game
6 February 1958 Manchester United Association football British European Airways Airspeed AS-57 Ambassador West Germany Munich, West Germany 23 11 8 players died,
3 club staff members also died		 [5]
16 July 1960 Danish Olympic football triallists Association football Zone-Redningskorpset De Havilland Dragon Rapide Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark 8 8 Eight players killed
29 October 1960 California Polytechnic State University American football Arctic Pacific Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando United States Toledo, United States 22 17 Sixteen players killed
15 February 1961 US figure skating team Figure skating Sabena Boeing 707 Belgium Brussels, Belgium 73 25 Entire team killed while en route to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia
3 April 1961 C.D. Green Cross Association football LAN Chile Douglas C-47A-35-DL Chile Llico, Chile 24 8 8 members of the team killed [6]
26 September 1969 The Strongest Association football Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Douglas DC-6 Bolivia Viloco, Bolivia 78 19 16 members of the team killed
2 October 1970 Wichita State University American football Golden Eagle Aviation Martin 4-0-4 United States Clear Creek County, United States 31 15 14 players and coach Ben Wilson killed. One of two planes en route to game vs. Utah State University. Other plane with reserve players and assistant coaches landed safely at Logan, Utah.
14 November 1970 Marshall University American football Southern Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-9 United States Wayne County, United States 75 45 Most of the team killed as plane hit tree line and exploded upon impact as it made final approach to Tri-State Airport in Ceredo, West Virginia. Plane was flying team back to campus after game at East Carolina University.
13 October 1972 Old Christians Club Rugby union Uruguayan Air Force Fairchild FH-227 Chile Chile 29 12 Eleven players were killed
13 February 1975 Västra Frölunda IF Ice hockey Baron Air Cessna 402 Sweden Gävle, Sweden 0 0[note] Seven players injured when Baron Air SE-GGN crashed. [7][8]
29 November 1975 Embassy Racing With Graham Hill Formula 1 Hillairious Airways Piper PA-23 United Kingdom North London, England 6 6 Six team members killed while returning from a test session at Circuit Paul Ricard in France. The dead included both of the team's drivers, Graham Hill (who piloted the plane) and Tony Brise.
13 December 1977 University of Evansville Men's basketball Charter DC-3 United States Evansville, United States 29 19 Entire team and coaching staff, along with members of the press, boosters, and plane crew, are all killed in crash shortly after take-off from Evansville en route to a game against Middle Tennessee State University.
11 August 1979 FC Pakhtakor Tashkent Association football Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134 Soviet Union Dniprodzerzhynsk, Soviet Union 178 17 Entire team killed in mid-air collision
14 March 1980 US amateur boxing team Boxing LOT Polish Airlines Ilyushin Il-62 Poland Warsaw, Poland 87 14 Killed a 14-man American boxing team
8 December 1987 Alianza Lima Association football Peruvian Navy Fokker F27 Peru Lima, Peru 43 23 Entire team killed
7 June 1989 Colourful 11 Association football Surinam Airways Douglas DC-8 Suriname Paramaribo, Suriname 176 15 Most of the team killed
27 April 1993 Zambia national football team Association football Zambian Air Force De Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo Gabon Atlantic Ocean off Gabon 30 22 All killed
27 January 2001 Oklahoma State University Men's basketball Charter flight Beechcraft Super King Air United States Strasburg, United States 10 8 Two players killed, as well as some team staff and media [9]
24 October 2004 Hendrick Motorsports NASCAR Charter flight Beechcraft Super King Air United States Martinsville, United States 10 3 Flight featured race team president John Hendrick, chief engine builder Randy Dorton, and former driver Ricky Hendrick among the victims. All aboard were killed.
30 March 2008 Apex Motorsports Sportscar racing Charter flight Cessna Citation 501 United Kingdom Farnborough, London, England 5 2 All killed (one team manager, driver and a data engineer.)
7 September 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Ice hockey Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42 Russia Yaroslavl, Russia 44 37 All killed, one player died in hospital [10]
17 November 2011 Oklahoma State University Women's basketball Charter flight Piper PA-28 Cherokee United States Perryville, United States 4 2 Head coach, assistant coach, and others [11]

1. ^ Frölunda chartered three planes to carry the entire team's roster, one of which carried seven team members and crashed.

Accidents involving other transportation types

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Date Team Sport Transportation Location Fatalities Description Ref
31 October 1903 Purdue University American football Train United States Indiana, United States 17 14 members of team killed
22 January 1927 Baylor University Basketball Bus United States Texas, United States 10 10 members of team killed
20 January 1989 Samsunspor Association football Bus Turkey Samsun, Turkey 5 3 players and coach Nuri Asan killed [12]
30 December 1986 Swift Current Broncos Ice hockey Bus Canada Saskatchewan, Canada 4 4 members of team killed
2 March 2007 Bluffton Beavers Baseball Bus United States Georgia, United States 7 5 members of team killed, 2 bus drivers
12 January 2008 Bathurst Phantoms Basketball Bus Canada New Brunswick, Canada 8 6 members of team killed
28 February 2014 Carleton Ultimate Team Ultimate Car United States Minnesota, United States 3 3 members of team killed, 2 seriously injured [13]
26 September 2014 North Central Texas College Softball Bus United States Oklahoma, United States 4 4 members of team killed

See also

References

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  13. ↑ http://www.startribune.com/march-3-carleton-college-mourns-3-students-killed-in-crash/248024101/
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