Superga air disaster

The Superga air disaster occurred on 4 May 1949, when a Fiat G.212 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 hill on the outskirts of Turin. All thirty-one people on the flight died.

The Avio Linee Italiane Fiat G.212CP was carrying the team home from Lisbon, where they had played a friendly match with S.L. Benfica in honour of the Portuguese captain, Francisco Ferreira. In the incident, the whole active Torino team lost their lives. Club officials including the manager, Ernő Egri Erbstein, a Hungarian refugee, and the coach, Englishman Leslie Lievesley, also perished in the accident, as well as the crew and three well-known Italian sports journalists: Renato Casalbore ; Renato Tosatti , and Luigi Cavallero . The task of identifying the bodies was entrusted to the former manager of the Italy national team, Vittorio Pozzo, who had called up most of Torino's players to the Azzurri.

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