In 1974 a Turkish Airlines plane crashed near Paris, killing 18 members of a rugby team. Also killed in the crash was club chairman Bryan Ellis, on what was his son Gordon Ellis's eighth birthday.

Eighteen members of Bury St Edmunds Rugby Union Football Club died when a Turkish Airlines plane crashed ... died in the crash; he was a last minute addition to the team. "The love of Bury St ...

A Storyville documentary in which the survivors of a plane crash in the high Andes ... Show more In October 1972, a student rugby team boarded a small plane in Montevideo to fly across the ...

"Society of the Snow" is inspired by Flight 571, which had 45 people on board when it crashed in a remote part of the Andes Mountains in 1972.