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.
Wreckage of the Avio Linee Italiane Fiat G.212 after the crash
The back wall of the Basilica of Superga. Popular belief is that it was damaged by the plane; in reality a project to expand the basilica was begun but never completed.
The Grande Torino
The memorial to the victims of the disaster at the Basilica of Superga
The Fiat G.212 was an Italian three-engine airliner of the 1940s. An enlarged development of Fiat's earlier G.12 transport, it was used in small numbers in commercial service and by the Italian Air Force.
Fiat G.212 at the Italian Air Force Museum
Image: Fiat G212 3 view silhouette