Zambia was set to head to Dakar to play Senegal in a World Cup qualifier on April 27, 1993. The team’s flight path was to take it from Zambia to Brazzaville, Congo, to Libreville, Gabon and then to Abidjan, Ivory Coast before finally arriving in Dakar.
The team never made it. In one of the most terrible tragedies in world soccer history, Zambia’s plane crashed, killing all 30 people on board: 18 players, 4 members of the coaching staff and medical team, the Zambian federation’s chairman, a journalist, and the entirety of the flight’s crew.