Key facts
- Date
- 4 May 1949
- Summary
- Controlled flight into terrain due to low visibility
- Site
- Superga Hill , Turin , Italy
- Aircraft type
- Fiat G.212 CP
- Operator
- Avio Linee Italiane
- Registration
- I-ELCE
- Flight origin
- Lisbon , Portugal
- Destination
- Turin, Italy
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- aviation accident
- Country
- Italy
- Operator
- Alitalia
- Location
- Turin
- Sport
- association football
- Image
- Fiat G.212 I-ELCE tragedia Superga.jpg
- Number of deaths
- 4
- Number of injured
- 0
- Participant
- Grande Torino
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- Commons category
- Superga air disaster
- point in time
- 1949-05-04
- has cause
- controlled flight into terrain
- start point
- Humberto Delgado Airport
- destination point
- Turin Airport
- item operated
- Fiat G.212
- vessel
- Fiat G.12
- number of survivors
- 0
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Encyclopedic overview
The Superga air disaster (Italian: Tragedia di Superga, "Tragedy of Superga") occurred on 4 May 1949, when a Fiat G.212 airliner of Avio Linee Italiane, carrying the entire Torino football team (popularly known as the Grande Torino), 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.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Superga air disaster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.