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Superga air disaster

1949 CE · Italy, Europe · Disaster

Superga air disaster
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The Superga air disaster occurred on 4 May 1949, when a Fiat G. 212 airliner of Avio Linee Italiane, carrying the entire Torino football team, crashed into the retaining wall at the back of the Basilica of Superga, which stands on a hilltop near Turin, Italy. All thirty-one people on board were killed.

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