Ciao, campioni!

The Superga air disaster happened on Wednesday, May 4, 1949, when a plane carrying almost the entire Grande Torino squad (18 players), plus management, journalists and crew, crashed into the Superga hills near Turin, killing everyone on board. In all, 31 people died.

The team was returning from José Ferreira's farewell match in Lisbon at the time of the crash. The crash was the biggest tragedy in Italian sports history since it claimed the lives of a legendary team that had won the Serie A title for the previous four years in a row (plus the last title before the outbreak of war). After the crash Torino F.C. did not win the title again until the 1975/76 season. Of the entire squad, only one player survived, Sauro Tomà who did not make the trip because he was injured. Ladislao Kubala was due to fly out to play in the match, but at the last minute didn't do it because of his son's ill health. (Source: Wikipedia)

Victims

Players

Valerio Bacigalupo
Aldo Ballarin
Dino Ballarin
Milo Bongiorni
Eusebio Castigliano
Rubens Fadini
Guglielmo Gabetto
Ruggero Grava
Giuseppe Grezar
Ezio Loik
Virgilio Maroso
Danilo Martelli
Valentino Mazzola
Romeo Menti
Piero Operto
Franco Ossola
Mario Rigamonti
Giulio Schubert

Club Officials

Arnaldo Agnisetta, manager
Ippolito Civalleri, manager
Egri Erbstein, trainer
Leslie Lievesley, coach
Ottavio Corina, masseur

Journalists

Renato Casalbore, (founder of Tuttosport)
Luigi Cavallero, (La Stampa)
Renato Tosatti, (Gazzetta del Popolo)

Crew

Pierluigi Meroni, captain
Antonio Pangrazi
Celestino D'Inca
Cesare Biancardi

Others

Andrea Bonaiuti, organiser