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Members of the amateur Old Christians Club rugby union team from Montevideo, Uruguay, were scheduled to play a match in Santiago, Chile, against the Old Boys Club, an English rugby team. [3] Club president Daniel Juan chartered a Uruguayan Air Force twin turboprop Fairchild FH-227D airplane to fly the team over the Andes mountains to Santiago ...
"Society of the Snow" is earning raves for its a ccurate depiction of the terrifying 1972 plane crash in the Andes mountains that involved a Uruguayan rugby team.. The new Netflix drama, directed ...
Pages in category "Leinster Rugby players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 334 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Most of the team killed as plane hit tree line and exploded upon impact as it made final approach to Tri-State Airport in Ceredo, West Virginia. The plane was flying the team back to campus after the game at East Carolina University. Among those killed were 37 players and 9 coaching staff members. 13 October 1972: Old Christians Club: Rugby union
A 6 ft 6 in forward, Murphy-O'Connor captained Bective Rangers to the Leinster Senior Cup title in 1948. He was a Leinster representative player and was capped once for Ireland, against England at Twickenham in the 1954 Five Nations, with his penalty goal accounting for his team's only points in a 3–14 loss. His biggest contribution to rugby ...
The Leinster Branch was inaugurated at a meeting on 31 October 1879. The meeting was held at Lawrence's premises at 63 Grafton Street and was largely attended. Although this was the formal founding of Leinster as we know it today, with the amalgamation of the Irish Football Union and the Northern Union, the Leinster provincial team had been active since 1879 – when the first interprovincial ...
Michael Patrick Fitzpatrick (born 25 November 1950) is an Irish former rugby union international. [1] Born in Dublin, Fitzpatrick was educated at St Paul's College, Raheny. [2] Fitzpatrick, a tighthead prop, won a Leinster Senior Cup title with Dublin University in 1976. [3]
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).