Many teams lost in crashes
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LIST of sports teams involved in fatal plane crashes:
May 4, 1949 — Italian football club, Torino. The four-time league champions lost 22 members, including 18 players, in Turin, Italy.
Feb. 6, 1958 — English football champion Manchester United, eight members, in Munich.
Aug. 14, 1958 — Egyptian fencing team, six members, in the Atlantic Ocean.
Feb. 16, 1961 — U.S. figure skating team, 18 members, in Belgium.
April 3, 1961 — Green Cross, a first-division Chilean soccer team; eight players died, plus two members of the coaching staff, in the Las Lastimas Mountains.
Sept. 26, 1969 — Bolivian football team “The Strongest,” at least 19 members killed, in the Andes.
Nov. 14, 1970 — Marshall University U.S. college football team, 36 players, in Huntington, W. Virginia.
Oct. 11, 1972 — Uruguayan rugby club, 29 people killed, in Chile, including five crew and some family members.
Dec. 13, 1977 — University of Evansville men’s basketball coach Bobby Watson and 14 players, in Evansville, Ind.
March 14, 1980 — U.S. amateur boxing team, 14 members, in Warsaw, Poland.
Dec. 8, 1987 — Alianza Peruvian first-division football team, 17 players, in Lima, Peru.
April 28, 1993 — Zambia’s national football team, 18 players and five team officials, in Libreville, Gabon.
— The Associated Press
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