You know I always wonder... I mean here they got millions and millions of dollars tied up to their personel- I think they must have really high paid mechanics with them everywhere they go... anyone know the inside scoop on the way they deal with their jets, pilots, mechanics, and any flying jinx lucky charns too for that matter. Teams travel a lot especially in MLB so its surprising to me that its never happened in the last 75 years. Hope it never happens but its just been a long standing "I wonder about itch" ?
2006-09-26 05:35:43 · 13 answers · asked by hearts_pool_chess 2 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Plane crashes aren't really that common. The odds are somewhere around once every half-million flights. Assuming that every team takes a plane trip for every road trip, then there are around 800 plane trips by MLB teams every year. If you muck with the numbers a bit, then the odds are about 625:1 against any team getting into a plane crash in any given year. So, in short: it's not particularly surprising that no team has ever gotten into a plane crash.
2006-09-26 08:29:16 · answer #1 · answered by JerH1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually this unfortunate occurrence has happened twice in football. The first was in May 4, 1949 when the entire Torino F.C. team perished in a plane crash. At that time Torino was leading the Serie A standings with four games left to go. The team took a long time to recovery from the incident. On February 6, 1958 Manchester United was flying home from a game against Red Star Belgrade in the European Cup (now the UEFA Champions League) when the plane crashed on its third attempt to takeoff from a slush-covered runway at the Munich-Riem airport in Munich, West Germany. The plane stopped in Munich to refuel. Twenty-three of the 44 passengers on board the aircraft died in the disaster. So it has happended and both times it has devasted the team.
2016-03-27 10:49:10 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As much as pro players travel, it is only a very small fraction of total air traffic in the world, and airplanes are very very safe compared to other vehicles. The reason why most people think air travel is dangerous is because EVERY SINGLE AIR INCIDENT is reported, no matter how small. There are thousand of motor vehicle accidents a day, and very little is reported, and almost never on national/international news. Back to the first point, there is always a chance it will crash, and obviously the teams have $$$ to ensure maximum safety, but the main reason, is that they are more publicized, and people overlook the "smaller" stuff. If you are confused, don't worry, there's over six billion people in the world, you're not alone.
2006-09-26 05:46:01 · answer #3 · answered by G. O. W. 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the 1970's a plane carrying the players of a soccer team crashed in the Andes Mountains. A movie called "Alive" was based on the tragedy.
2006-09-26 05:45:32 · answer #4 · answered by Ozzie B. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know of two college teams' whose planes crashed. Earlier in this decade one of the two planes carrying Oklahoma St mens hoops players crashed killing several players.
Around 1960 the plane carrying the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo football team crashed taking off from somewhere in Ohio. Over a dozen players were killed, several of them former teammates of John Madden, who had played football at Cal Poly in '57 and '58. This is probably a major reason Madden hates to fly and takes his bus across the nation to do his TV broadcasting gigs.
2006-09-26 07:01:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Remember the movie where they ate each other in the Andes mountains? They were a soccer team. That was a true story. But I was on a plane once with The Edmonton Oilers and I thought of that too.
2006-09-26 05:37:38 · answer #6 · answered by Fleur de Lis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually there will be a movie coming out about the Marshall plane crash in 1971 I believe (check yahoo movies they have a preview of it). This team lost all but 3 of it's players.
2006-09-26 05:42:42 · answer #7 · answered by hair_of_a_dog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
British football team Man U lost half their squad in a plane crash few decades back.
2006-09-26 05:43:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
although I never heard of a baseball team's plane crashing, my father is always telling me this story of a Brazilian soccer team that was flying to play another team and the plane crashed and they all died.
2006-09-26 06:32:30 · answer #9 · answered by LUV ALL SPORTS 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a few crashes invoving sports teams
Marshall football team
Evansville basketball team
the USA olympic boxing team
the Rugby team that crashed in Andes
2006-09-26 06:54:16 · answer #10 · answered by nas88car300 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋