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Last week, the Torinos took off in a chartered airliner for a routine training match against a Portuguese team (which defeated the Italians). On the flight home, lost in a soupy fog, the plane crashed into the Basilica on Superga Hill above Turin (where the members of Italy's former royal house are buried). Dead in the flames were all eleven members (and seven reserve players) of the Torinos team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Champions Are Dead | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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