The biggest plane crashes that killed sports teams. A plane carrying Brazilian football players crashed in Colombia (photo, video) Football team crash
Year: 1949
Dead: 31 people
Survivors: No
In the forties, the Turin Bulls were the strongest club in Italy and one of the strongest in Europe. From 1942 to 1949, Grande Torino was the undisputed champion of Serie A, if you do not take into account the 1944 tournament, which was not recognized as official. At the time of the tragedy, 10 players of the national team were playing in the “burgundy” team, including the captain of the “Azzurra squad” V. Mazzola.
On May 4, 1949, the team was returning home after friendly game with Benfica, which took place in the capital of Portugal. The plane with the players on board landed in Barcelona after taking off from Lisbon to replenish its fuel supply. In the capital of Catalonia, Torino players met with Milan players who were heading to Madrid, and as it turned out later, the Rossoneri representatives were the last to see the Burgundy ones alive. On approach to the destination, due to increased fog, the pilot lost control of the aircraft and descended below the permissible limit, which is why the left wing touched the basilica built on a hill. As a result of this contact, the aircraft turned around and high speed the side crashed into the ground. Of the 28 passengers (18 football players) and 4 crew members, none survived.
This tragedy had a major impact on Italian football. It took the Italian national team almost two decades to return to the elite European football, and Torino forever lost its status as a top club.
"Manchester United"
Year: 1958
Dead: 23 people
Survivors: 21 people
Having won the English Championship in 1956, Manchester United, with the help of their mentor Matt Busby, achieved permission to participate in the Champions Cup and became the first English club who played in the main European Cup. In the 1956/57 season, the Mancunians reached the semi-finals in the Championship, and again won gold in the English Championship. The next season also started successfully for Manchester United. Busby's team was in a leading position in the domestic championship, and reached the quarterfinals in the CC.
In the quarter finals of CC 57/58, Manchester United had to play a two-game duel with Red Star. The first meeting took place on January 14 in England and the Mancunians won it with a score of 2:1. The return game took place on February 5 in Belgrade and the match ended in a high-scoring draw with a score of 3:3, which took Busby's men to the second Champions League semi-final in a row.
Returning from Belgrade, the plane with the crew on board landed in Munich for refueling. Having replenished fuel supplies, the plane was supposed to immediately fly to Manchester, but the takeoff was canceled due to engine problems. By that time, heavy snow had fallen and visibility had decreased, but the ship's commander decided to make another takeoff attempt, despite the existing problems. Having reached the runway, the plane with Manchester United on board accelerated to a speed of 217 km/h, at which it was no longer possible to cancel the takeoff, but the pilots were unable to lift the car into the air. Having left the runway, the plane rammed the runway fence at high speed and crashed into a residential building. The crash killed 8 football players, three members coaching staff and ten other passengers. Among the survivors were club coach Busby and striker Bobby Charlton, as well as other football players.
Despite the death of eight players and injuries received by the rest of the team, Manchester United was able to finish the season and took second place in the English Championship, and the Mancunians lost to Milan in the semi-finals of the Championship. 10 years after the tragedy in Munich, Busby will lead Manchester United to their first European club champion title, and Charlton, playing under his leadership, will receive the Golden Ball.
Danish Olympic team
Year: 1960
Dead: 23 people
Survivors: 21 people
In 1960, summer events were held in Rome Olympic Games, and the Danish team was one of the participants in the Olympic football tournament. On July 16, eight members of the Danish Olympic team took off from Copenhagen in a small Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide, flown by 27-year-old pilot Stig Vindelev. A few minutes after takeoff, the pilot lost the horizon in poor visibility conditions and the plane crashed into the water 50 meters from the shore near the city of Oresund.
Among the survivors were only pilot Vindelev and 21-year-old goalkeeper Per Funk Jensen, but the latter died on the way to the hospital. As a result of the disaster, Vindelev lost his leg and never sat at the controls of an airplane again, becoming a physics teacher and inventor.
Immediately after the plane crash, the Danish Football Association decided to withdraw its team from the 1960 Olympic Games, but then this decision was reversed and the Danish team won silver at the Olympics.
Year: 1961
Dead: 24 people
Survivors: No
In the spring of 1961, Chilean football lost the Green Cross team. On April 3, a Douglas C 47A carrying the club's football players and coaches took off from the city of Castro for Santiago, crashed in the Cordillera, killing all 24 people on board. The wreckage of the plane that crashed in Chile was found only in 2015. The search expedition discovered only part of the plane, which by that time was covered with a layer of earth and was not visible from the air.
Year: 1969
Dead: 74 people
Survivors: No
In 1969, the Bolivian club Strongest was returning to La Paz from the city of Santa Cruz, where an international friendly tournament was taking place. The team was on board a Douglas DC-6B aircraft, which, including the players and coaches, carried 69 passengers. On September 26 at 14:10 local time, despite heavy snowfall, the plane left Santa Cruz airport and headed towards the Andes. 2 hours and 20 minutes after takeoff, the plane stopped communicating, after which a search operation was announced. The wreckage of the plane was discovered on the same day by a group of miners from the small village of Violko and a rescue team headed to the crash site. Upon arrival, rescuers discovered that of the 74 people on board, there were no survivors.
Based on the results of the examination, it was determined that the cause of the tragedy could have been a fire. The pilots tried to make an emergency landing, but due to poor visibility caused by smoke and heavy snowfall, they crashed into a mountainside.
The tragedy happened in the morning, Moscow time, when the plane traveled most of the way to Medellin International Airport in the capital of Colombia, Bogota.
There were 81 people on board, of whom nine were crew members and 72 were passengers. Among the passengers were 27 Chapecoense football players, as well as members of the club delegation and journalists.
About the exact number of victims on this moment is not reported, but in the club’s Facebook group, fans leave messages on the wall with the hashtag “live.”
The actions of rescuers are complicated by the fact that the plane crashed in a mountainous area, but one of the Colombian hospitals has already reported the admission of five passengers who survived the accident, and then another five.
Radio station 360 Radio Colombia reported that the crew of the charter flight signaled to ground services that the fuel level was low. The pilot decided to make an emergency landing, but the plane did not reach the nearest airport and crashed in the La Union area, 37 km from its destination - the city of Medellin.
In addition, the first photos from the scene of the incident appeared online. One of them shows the emblem of the Brazilian club.
By latest information, between ten and 16 people survived, and among them there are definitely three Chapecoense players: Alan Ruschel, Danilo Padilla and Jackson Vollman. It is reported that at least 25 people have already become victims of the tragedy.
The dispatchers became aware that the plane's electronics had failed even before the crash after a message from the pilot, who then circled over the ground for a long time, choosing a place for an emergency landing so that the plane would not explode on contact with the ground, which helped some passengers survive.
Chapecoense was founded in 1973, is a five-time champion of the state of Santa Catarina and is currently ranked ninth in the Brazilian Football Confederation rankings.
In 2013, the club from Chapeco, finishing second in Serie B, returned to the elite national division after 35 years.
Interestingly, first place in the Serie B championship that year was taken by the most titled Brazilian club“Palmeiras”, which this season, one round before the finish of the championship, scored its ninth victory in the Brazilian national championship.
It was in the match against Chapecoense, which currently occupies ninth place in the championship table, that Palmeiras won the title, winning with a score of 1:0.
Chapecoense, after returning to the elite, took first 15th and then 14th place and, at the end of the 2015 season, qualified for the second most important club tournament South America— Sudamericana Cup.
According to the tournament regulations, Brazilian teams will start in the second stage with confrontations with their compatriots. To get into the main draw, Chapecoense had to overcome the resistance of Cuiaba from Serie C, which was done, although not without difficulty (0:1, 3:1).
In the main round, Chapecoense first faced Argentina's Independiente and advanced to the quarter-finals after two goalless draws and a penalty shootout victory.
In the quarterfinals brazilian team beat the Colombian “Junior” (0:1, 3:0), and then in the semi-finals, thanks to a goal on a foreign field, they were stronger than the Argentine “San Lorenzo” (1:1, 0:0).
In the final, Chapecoense was scheduled to meet another Colombian team, Atlético Nacional. The first meeting was scheduled for November 30 and was to take place in the capital of Colombia, and on December 7 the rivals were to play in Chapeco.
The fate of the final is currently unknown, but, apparently, CONMEBOL (South American Football Confederation) will cancel the confrontation, and the winner will not be revealed this year.
The most famous football player Chapecoense is a midfielder who played for Atlético Madrid from 2007 to 2010.
The team's only foreign player, the 28-year-old Argentine, played 13 matches for the Spanish Villarreal in 2012, scoring one goal.
The most promising football player The team is a player of the Brazilian youth team, bought before the current season from Gremio by the German Hoffenheim, but loaned to Chapecoense.
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On February 6, 1958, a British European Airways plane carrying players from the English team Manchester United crashed at Munich Airport. On this day, we decided to remember five plane crashes in which athletes died.
In the 40s of the 20th century, the Turin team provided real competition to their city neighbors from Juventus. Moreover, Torino was one of the best Italian teams of the post-war era, especially after winning the national championship three times (1946, 1947, 1948). In total, taking into account the break during the war period, Torino won the Scudetto five times. At the time of the tragedy, the club was again leading the championship by four points.
The tragedy occurred on May 4, 1949, when the team was returning home from Portugal, where they were defeated by Lisbon Benfica with a score of 3:4. On board the Fiat G.212CP aircraft were 18 Torino football players, as well as the club management and several journalists - a total of 31 people. At the same time, in Barcelona, where the plane with the Torino players was landing to refuel, the Turin football players met and talked with their championship rivals - the Milan players.
The plane crashed very close to Torino. Due to heavy fog, the pilots lost orientation in space and crashed into the fence of the Catholic Basilica of Superga, after which the airliner turned sharply, and it high speed fell down. All people on board died. The only surviving Torino player from that period was Lauro Toma, who did not fly with the team to Lisbon due to an injury.
The eminent British club suffered much smaller losses compared to Torino. More than half a century ago, on February 6, 1958, a British European Airways plane carrying players from the English team Manchester United crashed at Munich Airport. On board the airliner were the club's players, Manchester United management, as well as fans and journalists - only 23 out of 44 people.
The plane crash with the Mancunians occurred on the way from Belgrade, where the team played a match against the local Red Star in the Champions League. The plane sat down to refuel in Munich and then tried to take off, but this was prevented by increased vibrations in the left engine. The second attempt also ended in failure. The third attempt to take off was prevented by the onset of snowfall, due to which the airliner lost speed. The left wing of the plane hit a nearby house.
21 people on board died instantly, the rest lost consciousness. Subsequently, the pilot was named as the culprit of the disaster, but ten years after the disaster he was acquitted due to the fact that due to the snowfall that began at the time of the third takeoff, a large amount of snow formed at the end of the runway, which caused the decrease in the speed of the airliner.
USA national team figure skating February 15, 1961
In 1961, 18 of the best U.S. figure skaters were scheduled to compete in the World Championships, which were to be held in Prague. On February 15, the athletes, along with coaches, officials and relatives, boarded the new Boeing 707. The plane took off from Kennedy Airport to Brussels, where the US team had a transfer to Prague.
A few hours later, the airliner crashed in a wooded area near the village of Berg, near the Belgian capital. All 72 people on board were killed, as well as one person on the ground. The 1961 World Championships in Prague were cancelled. Among the victims of the tragedy were Maribel Vinson-Owen, the coach of the American team, and her daughters Lawrence and Maribel, members of the US figure skating team.
Investigators found no signs of problems on board. Why, at an altitude of less than 300 meters, the Boeing engines suddenly increased power and the already extended landing gear retracted back is still unknown. The plane crash caused heavy blow in American figure skating, only in 1968 new champions appeared in the United States.
IN Soviet time“Pakhtakor” was an extremely strong team in the All-Union Championship. However, on August 11, 1979, events occurred that are written in black letters in the history of the club. The Tu-134 plane, in which the team was flying to Minsk for the next USSR championship match with Dynamo Minsk, collided with a similar plane at an altitude of 8400 meters above the Ukrainian Dneprodzerzhinsk. One of the planes was heading from Chelyabinsk to Chisinau, the other from Tashkent to Minsk.
All 178 people on both planes died (94 in the Moldavian and 84 in the Belarusian). Among the dead were 17 Pakhtakor players.
Despite the tragedy, the Soviet leadership decided to help the team by transferring players from other clubs, as well as maintaining their “registration” in Major League USSR, regardless of the results of performances, for a period of three years.
On September 7, 2011, a Yak-42 plane took off from Tunoshna airport, with Lokomotiv HC players on board. They were heading to the capital of Belarus, where the next day a game was scheduled with the local Dynamo. This was supposed to be the first match of the Yaroslavl team in the 2011-2012 Continental season hockey league.
During takeoff, the airliner was unable to gain a safe altitude, crashed into the antenna of a lighthouse located behind the runway, and fell near the airport. There were 45 people on board the plane, of whom only crew member Alexander Sizov survived. Doctors fought for several days for the life of hockey player Alexander Galimov, who miraculously escaped from the rubble, but his injuries were initially incompatible with life.
Immediately after the plane crash, the KHL management suspended the championship for several days. future fate No one was even thinking about the team at that moment. Soon it was decided that Lokomotiv would return to the KHL only in the 2012/13 season, and the team would skip the current season.
Later, the IAC named the direct cause of the disaster as involuntary pressing of the brake pedals during the take-off run of the aircraft, made by the aircraft commander or co-pilot. It was not possible to determine which of them made the fatal mistake.
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 well as 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 shot 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 a ridiculous prank 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 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 Major Hockey League (VHL), after which they returned to the KHL.
Some plane crashes have gone down in sports history forever because famous athletes were on board the planes that crashed. Dni.Ru remembers the most terrible crashes, the victims of which were famous sports teams.
In the middle of the last century, the Torino football club was a strong competitor to its fellow countrymen from the Juventus team. At the time of the tragedy, he was leading the Italian championship with a four-point lead over his closest rival. The plane crash happened when the Torino players were returning home from Portugal after losing to Benfica in Lisbon with a score of 3:4. On board the Fiat G 212CP were 18 team members, as well as the club management and several journalists - a total of 31 people.
The plane crashed near the airport in Torino. Due to heavy fog, the flight crew lost orientation in space. The aircraft turned sharply and quickly crashed. All passengers and crew on board were killed. Of the entire team, only Lauro Toma remained alive at that time. He was lucky: due to an earlier injury, he avoided a terrible fate by not flying to the match in Lisbon.
The burnt bodies of the victims were placed in the morgue of a Turin hospital. Relatives of the victims were not involved in the painful identification procedure, so as not to be traumatized by the sight of mutilated remains. I took on this heavy burden former coach"Torino" by Vittorio Pozzo.
A British European Airways plane carrying players from the English team Manchester United crashed at Munich Airport more than half a century ago. On board were the club's players, several coaches, fans and journalists. Of the 44 people, 23 died. 19 wounded were taken to a Munich hospital.
The disaster happened when the team was flying from Belgrade after a match with the local Red Star in the Champions League. The airliner refueled en route in Munich. When he attempted to take off, vibrations in the left engine prevented him from doing so. The pilots made a second attempt to take off, but it was also unsuccessful. When the plane took off for the third time, heavy snow began to fall. The aircraft lost speed, crashed through a fence at the end of the runway and crashed with its left wing into a nearby house.
21 people on board died instantly, the rest lost consciousness. After an investigation into all the circumstances, the pilot was named as the culprit of the crash. However, ten years later it was possible to establish that the real cause of the disaster was snowfall, due to which the plane’s speed dropped sharply and it was unable to take off. As a result, the pilot was acquitted.
18 of the best US figure skaters flew from J. Kennedy Airport to Brussels - the athletes had to transfer to another flight to Prague. The team was scheduled to perform at the World Championships in the capital of Czechoslovakia. But a few hours later, a brand new Boeing 707 carrying the athletes and their relatives crashed in a wooded area near the village of Berg, not far from the Belgian capital. All 72 people on board, as well as one person on the ground, were killed.
Among the victims of the crash were Team USA coach Maribel Vinson-Owen and her daughters Laurence and Marybel, both members of the US figure skating team. Immediately after the tragic news, the 1961 World Championships in Prague were canceled, and new champion skaters appeared in the United States only in 1968.
During the investigation into the cause of the crash, no signs of problems were found on board. Why, at an altitude of less than 300 meters, the Boeing engines suddenly increased power and the already extended landing gear “retracted” back still remains a mystery.
On a hot summer day, Tashkent football players flew to Minsk to play a USSR championship match with the local club Dynamo. By tragic accident, over Dneprodzerzhinsk at an altitude of eight and a half thousand meters, a Tu-134 collided with another similar airliner. All 178 people on both planes were killed. Among the victims of the plane crash were 17 football players of the Pakhtakor team.
After the tragedy, the leadership of the USSR decided to leave the club in the country's Major Football League for three years, regardless of the results of its performances at the championships.
The hockey team from Yaroslavl in full force flew from Tunoshna airport to Minsk, where they were supposed to play their first Kontinental Hockey League match of the 2011-2012 season with the local Dynamo.
The plane had difficulty gaining altitude. It crashed into the antenna of a lighthouse located behind the runway and crashed near the airport. There were 45 people on board the airliner. After the disaster, only crew member Alexander Sizov and hockey player Alexander Galimov survived. Doctors fought with all their might for the athlete’s life, but due to terrible injuries, incompatible with life, he died a few days later.
After investigating the circumstances of the crash, the IAC came to the conclusion that the immediate cause of the tragedy was involuntary pressing of the brake pedals during the take-off run of the plane. However, the commission was unable to establish who exactly made the fatal mistake.
Let us recall that it was previously reported that a British Aerospace Avro RJ85 plane belonging to the Bolivian airline LAMIA crashed in the Colombian province of Antioquia. The liner, which had 81 people on board, was traveling from Sao Paulo to Medellin.
At the moment, all injured passengers are urgently hospitalized, reports 360 Radio Colombia. According to Dni.Ru, the bodies of 25 people were found at the crash site. According to Colombian media, during the crash passenger plane in the province of Antioquia, between ten and 15 people survived. Among them are flight attendant Ximena Suarez, a sports massage therapist, as well as players from the Brazilian football club Alan Ruschel, Marcos Danilo and Jackson Vollmann.