Background
Further information: List of accidents involving sports teamsSince the advent of modern mass transportation, there have been accidents that killed all or nearly all members of various sports teams. The 1949 Torino Football Club had only one survivor following a plane crash. Two teams in the Canadian Football League lost players, returning from an all-star game, in the 1956 crash of Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810.
Other air incidents since then have involved the 1958 Manchester United football team, 1960 Cal Poly football team, 1960 Minneapolis Lakers basketball team (no fatalities), 1961 United States figure skating team, 1970 Wichita State University football team, 1970 Marshall University football team, 1977 University of Evansville basketball team, 1980 United States boxing team, 1993 Zambia national football team and the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team.
As a result of these accidents, some professional sports leagues have developed contingency plans should a disaster befall one or more of their teams.
Read more about this topic: Disaster Draft
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