Superga air disaster, Superga, Turin, Piedmont, Italy, Europe

The Superga tragedy was a plane crash that occurred May 4, 1949. At 17:03, the Fiat of the airline ALI, signed I-ELCE, with the entire Grande Torino team on board, crashed into the wall of the rear embankment of the Basilica of Superga, which rises on the Turin hill; the victims were 31. The plane was taking the team home from Lisbon, where they had played a friendly match against Benfica, organized to help the captain of the Lusitanian team Francisco Ferreira, in financial difficulties. In the accident the whole team of Torino lost their lives, winning five consecutive championships from the 1942-1943 season to the 1948-1949 season and that constituted almost all of the Italian national team. In the incident the team leaders and the carers, the crew and three well-known Italian sports journalists also died: Renato Casalbore (founder of Tuttosport); Renato Tosatti and Luigi Cavallero (La Nuova Stampa). The task of identifying the bodies was entrusted to the former technical commissioner of the National