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World Service,09 May 2019,9 mins

The Torino air disaster

Sporting Witness

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In May 1949, a plane carrying the Torino football team crashed into a mountain near Turin killing 31 people. At the time, "Il Grande Torino" were the dominant team in Italy and Europe, but the club never really recovered from an accident that killed almost the entire squad. Sporting Witness hears from Carla Maroso, the widow of one of the Torino players, and life-long Torino fan Gianpaolo Oremezzano. This programme was first broadcast in 2016. PHOTO: The ill-fated Torino squad (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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