The G.212 catastrophe in Superga is a plane crash that occurred on May 4, 1949 near Turin , as a result of which the entire Torino football team was killed.
| Superga crash | |
|---|---|
 Consequences of a disaster | |
| General information | |
| date | May 4, 1949 |
| Time | 17:05 |
| Character | CFIT (crashed into a hill) |
| Cause | Bad weather, crew disorientation |
| A place |  Superga , 12 km from Citta di Torino Airport , Turin ( Italy ) |
| Coordinates | |
| Dead | 31 (all) |
| Aircraft | |
 Crashed plane on the day of the crash | |
| Model | Fiat G.212CP |
| Airline | Avio Linee Italiane (ALI) |
| Departure point |  Portela , Lisbon ( Portugal ) |
| Stops on the way |  Barcelona - El Prat , Barcelona ( Spain ) |
| Destination | Citta di Torino , Turin ( Italy ) |
| Board number | I-elce |
| Date of issue | 1947 |
| Passengers | 27 |
| Crew | four |
| Survivors | 0 |
Content
History
Football club "Torino" sample of the 1940s was the super club of the championship of Italy . From 1946 to 1948, he won the gold medal of the national championship three times. The captain of the team was Valentino Mazzola ( Sandro Mazzola's father).
The match between Torino and Benfica took place in Lisbon on May 3, 1949, in which the Italian team lost to the Portuguese club with a score of 3: 4. The next day (Wednesday) Torino flew out of Lisbon on a three-engine Fiat G.212CP airliner of Avio Linee Italiane (ALI) . In addition to 4 crew members, 18 football players of the team, several club leaders and journalists (31 people in total) were on board.
Catastrophe
The plane made an intermediate stop in Barcelona for refueling, where the players of “Torino” met with fellow-rivals from “ Milan ”. The Milanese were transferred to a flight to Madrid and were the last to see Turints alive.
Around 17:00, when the airport of Turin remained about 12 kilometers, the plane got into a zone of increased nebula, because of which the pilots lost orientation in space. At 17:05, the liner touched the left wing of the fence built on the hill of the Basilica Superg , it spun, and he crashed into the ground at high speed. All 31 people on board were killed. One football player "Torino" survived - Lauro Toma ; he did not fly to the match with Benfica due to injury and stayed at home.
Dead
- Torino players
- Valerio Bachigalupo , goalkeeper, player of the Italian national team
- Aldo Ballarin , right back, player of the Italian national team
- Dino Ballarin , Goalkeeper
- Emile Bongjorney , striker
- Eusebio Castigliano , right midfielder / right insider, player of the Italian national team
- Rubens Fadini , midfielder
- Guglielmo Gabetto , center forward, Italian national team player
- Ruggiero Grava , forward
- Giuseppe Gretsar , left / right midfielder, player of the Italian national team
- Ezio Loic , right insider, national team player
- Virgilio Maroso , right / left, Italy national team player
- Danilo Martelli , midfielder, striker
- Valentino Mazzola , leftist inside / left winger, captain of the Italian national team
- Romeo Menti , right winger, Italian national team player
- Piero Operto , defender
- Franco Ossola , striker
- Mario Rigamonti , central midfielder, Italy national team player
- Julius Schubert , midfielder
- Representatives of "Torino"
- Ernst Egri-Erbstein , head coach
- Leslie Livesley , Assistant Head Coach
- Arnaldo Anizetta, manager
- Ippolito Chivalleri, Manager
- Andrea Bonayuti
- Osvaldo Cortina, masseur
- Journalists
- Renato Casalbore , founder of the sports newspaper " Tuttosport "
- Renato Tozatti, Gazzetta Sera
- Luigi Cavallero, " La Stampa "
- Crew
- Pierluigi Meroni, crew commander
- Celeste Biancardi, co-pilot
- Celeste DʻInka, flight engineer
- Antonio Pangraci, Telegraphist
- Passenger
- Andrea Bonauti, Torino fan. He was on board because the crew had been persuaded to fly on a regular flight (he needed to fly to Turin due to his wife’s illness).
Post Disaster
The bodies of the victims of the disaster were placed in the morgue of the Turin hospital. For identification, relatives were not allowed, so as not to aggravate their grief with a view of the burnt remains. Vittorio Pozzo , a well-known coach of the Italian national team, the former Torino coach, took on this difficult mission. May 6, 1949 the funeral of the dead football team.
There were 4 rounds left before the finish of the Italian Championship. "Torino" was in the lead, and the young players, assembled in a hurry from the backup, youth and junior teams, did their best to make the team a champion. In the end, they succeeded (their rivals - Fiorentina , Genoa , Sampdoria and Palermo - as a sign of respect, youth teams were also against Torino and all 4 matches won,) who were no longer alive (18 people), became champions of Italy in 1949 posthumously.
However, for the Italian national team, this was a serious blow: although the team got to the 1950 World Cup , it did not overcome the first stage, losing the first place to the Swedish team .
See also
- Plane crash in Munich February 6, 1958
- The crash of Boeing 707 near Brussels
- Accident DC-9 in Huntington
- F27 catastrophe under Lima
- DC-8 crash under Paramaribo
- Disaster DHC-5 near Libreville
- Yak-42 disaster near Yaroslavl
- Accident BAe 146 in Colombia
- The death of football players in air crashes
Comments
- ↑ Standing (from left to right): Castigliano, Ballarin, Rigamonti, Loic, Marozo, Mazzola. Sit (from left to right): Bachigalupo, Menti, Ossola, Martelli, Gabetto