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Almost the entire main team of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense, heading to the Colombian Medellin for the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana with Atlético Nacional, died in a plane crash that occurred on Tuesday night over Colombian territory. There were 81 people on board, including Chapecoense players, team support staff, journalists and crew members. However, by some miracle, five of them managed to survive. This may help to quickly determine the causes of the tragedy. On this moment There are two main versions: electronics failure and fuel depletion.

Catastrophe

On Monday night, about 30 km from Medellin, a BAe 146 plane of the Bolivian airline LaMia crashed. There were a total of 81 people on board, including almost the entire core team of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense, which was heading to Medellin, where the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana (the second most important club tournament) was scheduled for December 1 South America after the Copa Libertadores), in which the Brazilians had to face the Colombian Atlético Nacional. In addition to the players, coaches and members of the team's support staff, there were also 21 journalists and nine crew members on board.

According to Colombian authorities, at approximately 22:00 local time, the crew of the ship, at that time located at an altitude of approximately 4,500 m, issued a distress signal. He soon disappeared from radar. The rescuers, taking into account the circumstances, in particular the fact that the plane crashed in a mountainous and wooded area, as well as the fact that there was heavy rain in the crash zone, managed to arrive at the scene of the disaster quite quickly. It soon became clear that there were survivors of the plane crash. Among them were two team goalkeepers - Danilo and Jackson Vollman, defenders Alan Ruschel and Elihu Zampier, as well as one of the journalists and a flight attendant.

The presence of survivors of the disaster allows us to hope that the investigation into the causes of the tragedy will proceed faster than usual. At the moment, Colombian authorities have practically ruled out the possibility of pilot error. This is prompted by the fact that the crew, even before the plane disappeared from the radar, managed to report that the plane’s electronic equipment was failing. In addition, a flight attendant who survived the crash reported that the flight was normal, but at some point all four engines stopped working at once. In his opinion, it looked like the plane simply ran out of fuel.

Note that the BAe 146 that crashed was produced in 1999. It has been in operation by LaMia Airlines since 2013, and during this time this particular aircraft regularly carried out transportation football teams, including the Argentina national team or the same Atlético Nacional. At the airport in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, from where he was traveling (Brazilian aviation authorities did not give the Bolivian company permission to fly a charter flight to Colombia, citing the fact that such flights should be carried out by either Brazilian or Colombian carriers), they said that the pre-flight inspection did not reveal no problem.

After the disaster became known, Brazilian authorities announced in the country three days of mourning. In turn, the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) has canceled all matches played under its auspices until further notice. Of course, this also applies to the finals of the South American Cup, which now definitely will not take place. Well, it is possible that Chapecoense will be declared the winner. At least, the management of Atlético Nacional already made such a proposal yesterday.

Alexander Petrov

It's hard to remember this. But fate cannot be changed. Six years ago, at 16.00, a Yak-42D airliner crashed into the bank of the Tunoshonka River. That's how she died hockey team"Locomotive".

I remember that day as if it were now.

The season opened in Ufa, where the match for the Opening Cup took place between Salavat Yulaev and Atlant. An hour before the game, a press conference was held by the KHL president and sponsors. Everyone was in high spirits, because we had gathered for the holiday.
A quarter of an hour before the throw-in, we went to our places. Headed over to the computers...
And suddenly the terrible news began to spread like spilled ink on a white sheet of paper.

-Have you seen it? The plane carrying Lokomotiv crashed...

- Are you kidding! How…

— What if there’s a mistake? Did someone launch a duck?

- There are no such ducks...

- Call someone from the team!

But the phones were silent. And the news was falling. Details, facts. It was very painful.

“At 16.00 near Yaroslavl, during takeoff from Tunoshna airport...”

All this happened in the room where the commentators sit. And below on the ice there was a game going on. Salavat Yulaev defender Andrey Kuteikin fired a beautiful flick from the blue line and scored the first goal of the season.

There, behind the glass, life was still in full swing. It was hockey. Maybe we were played ridiculously after all?
But a cold whisper had already spread through the stands. The match was stopped. A pale Alexander Medvedev appeared near the owners’ shop. I will never forget his speech. And I can’t imagine how difficult it was to announce this to the whole world.

“Today a terrible tragedy happened. A plane carrying Lokomotiv hockey players, administrators and coaches of the club crashed. Of the 37 people, only one survived. We will decide whether to continue the match or not during the break. I ask you to honor the memory of the victims with a minute of silence.

Everything inside completely turned upside down and flew down somewhere. Many hockey players cried like children. They were taken to the locker rooms.

The Atlanta players went to church. Jan Marek, who competed in the final of last season, crashed. He moved to Lokomotiv so quickly that they did not have time to award him a silver medal.

The Swedes Fernholm, Zakrisson, Andersson cried - their friend Stefan Liv died. Slovakian Radivojevic lost Pavol Demitra. Alexey Kovalev was left without Alexander Karpovtsev and Igor Korolev. Konstantin Rudenko played for Lokomotiv, but in the off-season he moved to Mytishchi. This saved him...

It was terrible in Ufa, and Yaroslavl generally turned black from disaster. The torrential rain late at night was forever etched in the memory of the colleagues who were there. And the flashing lights of cars near the morgue of the Solovyov hospital, where the charred bodies of the players who were taken out of the river were brought. Identification was underway...

And hills of flowers grew next to Arena 2000. Photos of the guys, burning candles. No amount of rain could extinguish them.

There was a glimmer of hope that Alexander Galimov would survive. He was terribly burned and doctors tried to save him. Transportation to Moscow. But the miracle did not happen. Sasha left five days later...

That plane crash affected everyone, split the lives of families and many people into a spreading crack. Citizens of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Sweden, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, and Canada died on that plane. Nine countries. And everyone was united by a common grief.

We need to remember September 7th. That's it, in detail. Come to the Leontievskoe cemetery in Yaroslavl. To other places where the guys found their final rest.

What can we give them now? Only memory. And respect. So, I can’t imagine why a school named after Ivan Tkachenko has not yet been built in Yaroslavl, over which the poor father of the Lokomotiv captain has been struggling for many years. The results of the investigation into why the plane crashed also raise questions. The tragedy was overgrown with rumors that turned into myths. But there is no clear answer...

Live for the sake of the living. And don’t forget the team that crashed on takeoff on that black Wednesday.

Everlasting memory.

"Lokomotiv" -2011

Goalkeepers: Alexander Vyukhin, Stefan Liv.

Defenders: Vitaly Anikeenko, Mikhail Balandin, Robert Dietrich, Marat Kalimulin, Karel Rakhunek, Ruslan Salei, Karlis Skrastins, Pavel Trakhanov, Yuri Urychev, Maxim Shuvalov.

Forwards: Alexander Vasyunov, Josef Vashichek, Alexander Galimov, Pavol Demitra, Alexander Kalyanin, Andrey Kiryukhin, Nikita Klyukin, Jan Marek, Sergey Ostapchuk, Pavel Snurnitsyn, Daniil Sobchenko, Ivan Tkachenko, Gennady Churilov, Artem Yarchuk.

Trainers: Brad McCrimmon, Alexander Karpovtsev, Igor Korolev, Nikolai Krivonosov.

Staff: Yuri Bakhvalov, Alexander Belyaev, Andrey Zimin, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Evgeny Kunnov, Vladimir Piskunov, Evgeny Sidorov.

On 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.

Among the dead were three Belarusians: hockey players Ruslan Salei And Sergey Ostapchuk and also a physical trainer Nikolay Krivonosov.

The Minsk publishing house “Medisont” published a book in September 2012 sports journalist Sergei Olekhnovich about the Belarusian hockey player Ruslan Salei “Simply the best. Simply the Best." True, its author did not live to see the publication of the work, leaving this world on July 27, 2012 at the age of 45. He managed to submit the book for printing and receive an advance copy.

May 25, 2014 during the 2014 World Hockey Championship in Minsk former captain Ruslan Salei was a member of the Belarusian national team (IIHF).

Sergei Ostapchuk and Nikolai Krivonosov were buried on September 11, 2011 at the capital's Kalvariyskoe cemetery. In memory of Sergei Ostapchuk, a youth hockey tournament is held annually in his homeland in Novopolotsk.

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 A.V. Vishnevsky Research Institute 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 Emergency Situations 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.

In the 40s of the last century, it was not Juventus that was the main club in Turin, but the team of the same name with the city, which won five national titles from 1942 to 1949. And a dozen team members were national team players.

On May 4, 1949, the Italian champions were returning from a friendly match against Benfica in Portugal on a three-engine Fiat plane. The plane was forced to land in Barcelona to refuel. Here at the airport the players met their colleagues from Milan, who were flying to Madrid for a match with. They were the last to see the Turin people alive.

The plane had almost reached its arrival point, but a few kilometers before Turin it entered a dense fog. The pilot became disorientated, but decided to land the plane based on his own instincts. Having descended, the plane caught the fence of the Basilica of Superga with its left wing, instantly lost control and high speed crashed into the ground.

At that time, there were 18 team members on board the plane, led by team captain Valentino Mazzola, several journalists, officials and English coach Leslie Livesey. The only player missing was Lauro Tom, who remained at home due to injury.

None of those on the plane survived.

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The Busby Babes are a legendary Manchester United squad led by a great coach. A year before the disaster, the team became the champion of England and was the first to take part in the European Champions Cup.

On that fateful day, February 6, 1958, the team was returning from a Champions Cup quarter-final match against Red Star Belgrade on a British Airways charter flight from Belgrade to Manchester. Refueling was required, and the pilot decided to carry it out at Munich airport.

While trying to take off, the plane unexpectedly developed engine problems, however, not wanting to fall behind schedule, the pilots decided to try again. The snow stuck on the runway did not allow the plane to gain the required altitude, and, despite a desperate attempt to lift the ship off the ground, the pilots were unable to gain the required altitude - at a speed of 200 km/h, the plane broke through the airport fence and crashed into a neighboring house.

None of the residents of the house were injured, but of the 44 people on board, 23 were killed and another 19 were injured. For three members of the coaching staff and seven football players, this flight was the last.

Among the survivors was the later English football legend, world champion and winner of the 1966 Ballon d'Or.

Denmark second team

Eight football players from the second Danish national team died in a plane crash upon landing at the airport in the small Danish city of Oresund, near Copenhagen. They were flying to prepare the national team for the Olympics football tournament in Rome.

Despite what happened, the Danish Football Union decided not to refuse to participate in the tournament.

"Green Cross"

The entire team of the first division of the Chilean championship crashed in the Cordillera when returning from Osorio. 24 people died.

"Strongest"

The most popular club crashed in the Andes on September 26, 1969, while returning to La Paz. 19 players and club managers were killed.

Air Liquid

Flew on friendly match to Spain, the entire team died in a plane crash.

"Pakhtakor"

Perhaps one of the most famous and terrible disasters in the history of Soviet aviation. On that fateful day, two Tu-134 passenger planes collided over Dneprodzerzhinsk due to the fault of air traffic controllers. There is also a version about a training missile hit.

Pakhtakor football players were flying on a regular flight from Tashkent to Minsk for a match with local Dynamo. The second aircraft was flying Voronezh - Chisinau.

The airliners collided in the air. The plane carrying the crew lost its tail, part of its right wing and one of its engines. The pilot tried to make an emergency landing, but at an altitude of 4000 m he entered a steep dive and crashed to the ground.

"Alianza Lima"

A plane carrying 43 players, team managers and fans while returning home after a Chilean championship match crashed into the sea 6 miles north of the country's capital, Lima.

Zambia national team

In April 1993, the Zambian team flew to qualifying match for the World Cup against the Senegal team. The plane crashed into the sea off the coast of Gabon.

Chapecoense

On November 29, a plane carrying the Brazilian football team Chapecoense crashed in Colombia on their way to the first final match of the Copa Sudamericana against the local Atlético Nacional. The cause of the accident was a collision with a rock. There were 27 club players on board, and in total there were 81 people on the plane.

As of 16:00 Moscow time, the number of victims was 76 people.

The head of Brazil expressed his condolences to the President Russian Federation, reports the official website of the Kremlin.

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39 years ago, on August 11, 1979, there was one of the worst plane crashes in the history of the USSR: two Tu-134 passenger planes collided in the sky over Dneprodzerzhinsk. As a result, 178 people died, including 17 members football team "Pakhtakor". Air traffic controllers were found guilty of this tragedy, although the circumstances of the disaster seem too strange to many and still give rise to many versions regarding its causes.

For almost 23 years sports world did not declare mourning due to plane crashes in which members of football teams died. Brazilian club Chapecoense, which was supposed to transport team members and journalists to the match with Atlético Nacional in the Copa Sudamericana. There were 72 passengers and 9 crew members on board the plane. Rescue operations are currently underway at the crash site. According to preliminary information, six passengers managed to survive. The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) has suspended all matches under its auspices. We look back at other cases of air disasters that have affected the world of football.

1. May 4, 1949. "Torino"

In the late 40s of the last century, Torino was one of the top clubs in Italy, ahead of even its neighbors Juventus in fame and popularity. From 1946 to 1948, the Bulls won the championship three times under captaincy Valentino Mazzola, father of the legendary Sandro Mazzola.

On May 3, 1949, Torino played a match with Benfica in Lisbon, which ended in defeat - 3:4. The players' spirits were lifted by a meeting with friends from Milan in Barcelona. The Turin plane landed at the local airport to refuel, while the Milanese were transferring to a flight to Madrid. As it turned out, the Rossoneri were the last to see the Torino players alive. The team's plane entered an area of ​​increased fog, the pilot lost orientation in space and his left wing touched the fence of a basilica built on a hill. The plane turned around and hit the ground with force. Everyone on board died. The only player left was Lauro Toma, who did not fly to the match due to injury.

2. February 6, 1958. "Manchester United"

One of the most resonant disasters in the history of world sports. The Busby Babes have forever entered the annals of English football and left an indelible mark on the hearts of fans around the world. The tragedy that occurred on February 6, 1958 at Munich airport became even more terrible. Despite the fact that air travel was considered a high risk at the time, Manchester United flew throughout Europe, combining performances in England on weekends and European Cup matches on weekdays. The club booked a charter flight for the match with Red Star in Belgrade. The problems began in Munich, where the plane landed for refueling. After two unsuccessful take-off attempts, the crew was ready to reschedule the flight, but in the end a third attempt was made, which ended in tragedy. The plane did not have time to take off in time and rammed a house with a hangar in which a car with fuel was parked. 21 people died instantly, including eight United players. In 1960, a clock with the date "6 February 1958" at the top and the words "Munich" at the bottom was installed in the south-east stand at Old Trafford, and remains there to this day. Every year on February 6, when their hands show the time of the plane crash - 15 hours 4 minutes, a minute of silence is announced at Old Trafford in memory of the victims of the Munich disaster.

A dark date in the history of Manchester United

51 years ago, a plane carrying football players returning home from an away European Cup match crashed at Munich-Riem airport. English club"Manchester United".

3. July 16, 1960. Denmark national team

In the early 60s there was no professional football in Denmark as such. Players were prohibited from even playing for foreign clubs under threat of not being called up to the national team. Nevertheless, the Danes were diligently preparing to compete for entry into Olympic Games in Rome. Eight players flew from Copenhagen Airport to Herning for the national team match. The plane crashed 50 meters from the coast due to bad weather conditions. Only the pilot and football player survived Sig Vindelov, which was found by fishermen near the shore. The other player was lucky too - Eric Dureborg, who was removed from the flight due to disgusting behavior at the airport. The Danish team seriously considered withdrawing from the tournament, but in the end they won silver medals in Rome.

4. April 3, 1961. "Green Cross"

A year later, another football team crashed in a plane crash. Green Cross, which played in the first division of the Chilean championship, took off from Santiago airport for the next round match. The players were not destined to reach the place - the entire crew and passengers died after the plane collided with the Las Lastimas mountain range in the Cordillera.

5. September 26, 1969. "Strongest"

On September 26, 1969, a military coup took place in Bolivia. However, this event also faded into the background when, on the same day, the largest plane crash in history occurred in the country. The passenger airliner collided with a mountain in the Cordillera massif. All 74 passengers, including 16 football players and coaching staff best team countries "Strongest", died. The South American Football Federation declared mourning and allocated $20 thousand to the club. Many players who previously played for Strongest returned to the club at a reduced rate. Five years later, the club again won the Bolivian championship.

6. December 31, 1970. Air Liquid

A few months later, the plane carrying the Algerian Air Liquid team to Spain for a friendly tournament did not reach its destination. All passengers and crew members were killed.

7. August 11, 1979. "Pakhtakor"

At the end of the 70s, one of the most terrible sports tragedies in the history of Soviet football occurred. Tashkent Pakhtakor, flying to a match in Minsk, was involved in a plane crash, which became one of the largest in the history of the country. Two planes collided in the sky over Dneprodzerzhinsk - none of the passengers on both aircraft managed to survive. Among the 178 dead were 17 members of Pakhtakor. Due to the fact that the team was popular in the country, it was impossible to keep silent about the tragedy. All members of the football team were buried in Tashkent at the Botkin cemetery of the city, where a monument was erected to them. And Pakhtakor itself, according to the rule introduced into the regulations, retained its place in the elite division of the USSR for three years.

The first Russian football publication and Dick Advocaat's debut in the Russian national team. What else is August 11 remembered in the history of football?

8. December 8, 1987. "Alianza Lima"

In December 1987, 43 people - football players, managers, coaches and fans of the Peruvian team Alianza Lima - died in a plane crash. Their plane, carrying passengers home after a national championship match, crashed into the sea six miles north of the capital, Lima.

9. June 7, 1989. Dutch football players

The football world could have lost Frank Rijkaard And Ruud Gullita at the height of their football glory. Fortunately, both stars did not travel to their historical homeland in Suriname to participate in a tournament with three local clubs. Rijkaard, Gullit, Aron Winter And Brian Roy refused the flight, citing the desire to properly prepare for the new season. This decision saved their lives. The pilots of the plane, taking off from Amsterdam, made a mistake when landing in Paramaribo and hit a tree with its wing. As a result of the crash, 11 out of 187 people survived. All 15 football players on board died.

10. April 27, 1993. Zambia national team

The Zambian Air Force organized a special flight to take their country's national team to Dakar, where they were scheduled to play a 1994 World Cup qualifying match against Senegal. During the first refueling, problems were discovered with one of the engines. However, the pilot decided to continue the flight. As a result, a few minutes after takeoff, the engine caught fire and the plane fell into the water 500 meters from the coast. All passengers died. The only survivors from the Zambian team were those who traveled independently from the Netherlands Kalusha Bwalya and an injured goalkeeper Charles Musonda.