The Manchester United crash in Munich, the Shapakuansa disaster, the sudden death of Drazan Petrovich and the bitter end of Ayrton Senna and Vichai SriadhannaPrava • A painful reminder of the painful transport tragedies in the world and in Israel

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Basketball legend Kobe Bryant's helicopter crash with his daughter Gianna, on his way to coaching her basketball, has prematurely taken one of the biggest basketball legends of all time and left many stunned and aching fans and friends behind. However, even in the world of sports stars, as well as in the music and rock star world, resounding human tragedies and disasters are something that has been repeated throughout history and often leaves fans and fans stunned by the huge loss or unfulfilled legend. So in light of the current tragedy, we have decided to look back at some of the major sporting disasters that have befallen the star greats of the sports world.

Suffrage Disaster (Turin)

This is an air disaster that occurred on May 4, 1949 in Turin. A passenger plane in which coaches and managers of the Turin football team traveled from a friendly match in Portugal and several journalists who covered them crashed. Due to poor visibility conditions and thunderstorms, the plane collided with a Suffraga basilica located on the mountain and everyone present on the plane including crew members, 31 in number, were killed at the scene. Turin's soccer team was ranked first in the Serie A table.

The team composition at the time was one of the best in Italian football history - the team won four championships in a row, nicknamed "Gran Turin", the team had trouble recovering from the disaster, and its next championship achieved only about 30 years later, in the 1976/75 season. The disaster caused a shock in Italy and over a million people attended a funeral held in Turin. The shock was so great that a year later, in the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, the Italian team traveled by ship due to the national trauma of the disaster.

The Manchester United football team disaster

One of the largest and most recognized sports disasters occurred on February 6, 1958, in the city of Munich. Manchester United football players were on a British aircraft of BEA flight 609 which had difficulty taking off from the runway due to the accumulation of frozen snow on the runway. Twenty-one of the 44 passengers on the flight were killed as a direct result of the crash and two (Duncan Edwards and Frank Swift) later died. The killed were 8 team players and 3 of the team's professional staff. The team returned from the European Cup game in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, but their aircraft had to land in Munich to refuel what was supposed to be a direct flight from Belgrade to Manchester.

The pilots tried to take off twice after refueling, but had to stop due to engine problems. Captain Thane feared a delay in the schedule, rejected the possibility of staying overnight and decided to try to take off for the third time. By the time of the third takeoff attempt, it had already snowed, causing an accumulation of slash at the end of the runway. When the plane hit the slash it lost speed, making take-off impossible. The plane crashed out of orbit through a fence, and then one of its wings hit a nearby building and was torn down.

The helicopter crash in Visa Castelli

The helicopter crash in Visa Castelli took place on March 9, 2015, near the Visa Castelli village in northwest Argentina. This is a crash of two helicopters led by French athletes from various sports, who were during a episode of the reality show "Dropped" (AN) on the French TF1 channel. There were no survivors. Among those killed were Olympic champion and world champion swimming Camille Moffa, boxer Alexis Westin (AN) and Florence Arto Cruiser (AN).

Survivors of Pekouna disaster // Photo: AFP

Shapukaansa disaster

The Shapcoansa Football Club is a soccer team from the city of Shapco, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The team has a cataract club that has won the state championship 2 times. On November 28, 2016, LaMia Airlines flew 2933 in which the team players were on their way to the first game in the final crash near Medellin, Colombia. The games were immediately rejected, out of 81 passengers five people were rescued. The 19 team players and coach perished in the crash. Athletico National, with whom Epcuanza was expected to contend in the final, requested that the title be honored to a team that was almost completely extinct in the disaster. CONMEBOL complied with the request and granted the title to Shapakuansa.

Rocky Marciano

Rocco Francis Markjan, was a professional boxer known by the stage as Rocky Marciano. He was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1952 to 1956. Marciano earned 43 knockout wins out of 49 fights (87.8% knockout rate). He retired from boxing on a clean balance of only wins, no losses and no draw, and was the only one to reach such a record number of wins without losses, until 2015, when Floyd Mayweather compared his number of wins to him.

In August 2017, Mayweather broke the record when he defeated Connor McGregor in "The Century Battle." In 1969, on the eve of his 46th birthday, Marciano boarded a small private jet, the Cessna 172. The plane was on its way to Des Moines, Iowa. It was night and bad weather prevailed outside. The pilot, unskilled in flight in such dangerous weather, tried to land the plane at a small airport near Newton, Iowa, but struck a tree two miles ahead of the field. The fuel ran out of aircraft. Rocky, the young pilot, and another passenger were killed in the crash.

Airton Senna

Legendary racing driver Airton Senna, a three-time Formula 1 World Champion, and one of the experienced drivers of motor sports, but none of it saved him from death as a result of an accident on the Enzo and Dino Ferrari track in the city of Imola in Italy, where the San Marino Grand Prix took place in 1994. The race itself was led by Cena before Michael Schumacher, after he was terminated due to another collision and a month. On the second lap after the race resumed, his car veered off the track and hit a concrete wall that was not protected by tires.

Sena was able to slow down the car in the short time between getting off the track and collision but nonetheless his speed was hit by the wall at 200 mph. The official version is that he was rushed to hospital while alive and died there but many believe he died on the spot and was not pronounced dead just to prevent The cessation of the race and the economic damage that had been caused to the organizers as a result, as a rule it is not clear to the end how Sena was killed and arguments about it continue among his fans to this day.

Michael Schumacher

Even Ayrton Senna's successor, the legendary racing driver himself Michael Schumacher, was seriously injured and in a very serious medical condition. But while Cena was killed on the track, Schumacher met his fate on the ski track. Prior to his serious injury, he won a world title seven times, breaking almost every possible record in Formula 1. On December 29, 2013, he was severely injured in the head by a rock injury in a skiing accident, which occurred when he surfed at the Maribel Ski Resort near the Swiss border. The severe injury occurred while surfing with his son Mick.

Petrovich. Huge career ended in serious accident // Photo: AFP

Drajan Petrovich

Drajan Petrovich was a Croatian basketball player who played in the sling position and is considered one of the best in the world today. Petrovich is remembered as one of the greatest European basketball players and one of the first to succeed in the American NBA League. In his years of activity, he was considered the best European player, nicknamed 'the Mozart of basketball', and many consider him the best European basketball player of all time. Unfortunately, on June 7, 1993, Drajan Petrovich's impressive career was interrupted by a car accident in Germany, when his girlfriend's vehicle crashed into a reversed tanker. Drajan sitting in the back seat was killed at the scene. His sudden death, at the height of his success, was a shock to the sports world at the time.

Kodricki's post-accident ceremony // Photo: Courtesy of Bnei Yehuda

Nikolai Kudritsky

The gifted soccer player Nikolai Mikhailovich Kudrycki (October 6, 1962 - March 16, 1994) was a Soviet-Ukrainian footballer born in the city of Nikopol in the USSR (now in Ukraine). He spent most of his career at the Dnieper Dnipropetrovsk Group. In the early 1990s he arrived in Israel and was one of the prominent players of Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv, until he was killed in a car accident near the city of Raanana at 4 am after his vehicle overturned.

My father is Ren

The great Israeli goalkeeper Avi Ran (August 25, 1963 - July 11, 1987) was the goalkeeper of the Maccabi Haifa team and the Israeli national team, and is considered one of the greatest Israeli goalkeepers of all time and even compared to the great Jacob Hodorov. Unfortunately, he was killed in a sailing accident as a result of a motor boat crash on a motorcycle he rode on the Sea of ​​Galilee.

SriwadhanaPrabha. Raised Lester to unprecedented heights // Photo: Reuters

Vichai SaruadhanaPrabha

Billionaire Vichai SaruadhanaPrabha, co-owner of the British team Lester and pushed the team forward in the league. However, on October 27, 2018, a Premier League match was held between Lester Lustham United, King Power Stadium, Leicester owners, Vichai SaruadhannaPrabha, in his private helicopter. Minutes after takeoff, the helicopter crashed near the stadium, causing the team owners to die.