Championship-bound Brazilian soccer team nearly wiped out as charter plane crashes

[Onkel Neal]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/29/survivors-reported-after-plane-carrying-brazilian-soccer-team-crashes-in-colombia/

This is bad. I've always feared someday, with sports teams always in the air, that this would happen.

[Jimbuna]

Tragic without a doubt and not the first unfortunately.

The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958 when British European Airways flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport, West Germany. On the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes", along with supporters and journalists. Twenty of the 44 on the aircraft died at the scene. The injured, some unconscious, were taken to the Rechts der Isar Hospital in Munich where three more died, resulting in 23 fatalities with 21 survivors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_air_disaster

[August]

Nope not the first and not unique either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Andes_flight_disaster

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_union) team, their friends, family and associates, that crashed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_incidents) in the Andes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andes) on 13 October 1972, in an incident known as the Andes flight disaster and, in the Hispanic world and South America, as the Miracle of the Andes (El Milagro de los Andes). More than a quarter of the passengers died in the crash and several others quickly succumbed to cold and injury. Of the 27 who were alive a few days after the accident, another eight were killed by an avalanche that swept over their shelter in the wreckage. The last 16 survivors were rescued on 23 December 1972, more than two months after the crash.

[Highbury]

Nope not the first and not unique either

Far from unique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_involving_sports_teams

Unfortunately any time you have a large group travelling together, it is catastrophic when something goes wrong.

[GoldenRivet]

Based on the pictures of the accident site, its a miracle anyone survived