A new sporting shock to a world sports star with death planes, with the news of the death of American basketball legend, Kobe Bryant, and this accident brought back painful memories of deadly aircraft crashes in sport.
The retired basketball legend, Kobe Bryant, was killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, with 8 others, including his daughter Gianna, and the tragedy of Kobe Bryant added to the tragedies of athletes on flights, and Sky News reported a detailed report On the athletes' accidents with death planes, starting in 1949, which witnessed the crash of the Italian club Turin, which killed 23 players at once.
It was followed later by the second accident in 1958, and the accident of the Manchester United plane, the most famous club at that time, in which 8 players and 3 members of the technical staff lost their lives on its impact, in the plane that crashed near Munich, Germany, and only two years later, the sports circles were on A date with another accident that claimed the lives of 8 players from the Danish Olympic team over the capital, Copenhagen, and then crashed a Chilean club Club Green Cross near the city of Yeku in Chile, in April of 1961, killing 8 players from the first team as well.
This was followed by the crash of the Bolivian team, "The Strongest", near the Philippine city of Filuco in September 1969, causing the death of 16 players and 3 members of the technical staff of the first team, and the sporting tragedies continued, so the plane that carried the Pakhtakor Uzbek team in The city of Dnipro in 1979, after which 17 players from the first team died.
In 1987, the plane of the Alianza Lima Peruvian team crashed near the Peruvian city of Lima, and 14 players were killed as a result, followed by the crash of the Dutch team members in the Dutch club in Suriname, and 15 players from the Dutch team were killed in 1989.
In 1993, the Zambian National Football Team plane crashed in a tragedy that killed 22 players, in the waters of Gabon in the Atlantic Ocean, and air disasters reached a new station in 2016, when the Brazilian team Chapecoense plane carrying 21 players and 8 members of the device crashed The technician is led by Brazilian coach Caio Junior, who has worked as a coach in the UAE Football League with Al-Shabab and Al-Jazira teams.
The beginning of 2019 came to a new tragedy, which killed Argentine player Emiliano Sala, whose plane crashed in the English Channel between France and Britain, while he was on his way to Wales to complete his signature with Cardiff City, and in the same week commemorating the year of Sala's death, the tragedy came with the death Basketball legend Kobe Bryant, and 8 people with him, becomes the last of the athletes to leave on one-sided and painful destination.