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The sole team member who did not board the plane died in a car crash two weeks later. 11 August 1979: FC Pakhtakor Tashkent: Association football: Aeroflot: Tupolev Tu-134: Dniprodzerzhynsk, Soviet Union: 178: 17: Entire team killed in mid-air collision: 10 January 1980: Louisiana State University: American football: Private: Cessna 441 ...
Samoa Rugby Union were formerly members of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance (PIRA) along with Fiji and Tonga. [2] They are ranked 11th in the world. [3] Rugby was introduced to Samoa in the early 1920s and a governing body was soon formed. The first international was played as Western Samoa against Fiji in August 1924.
Jake Jacob Grey (17 February 1984 – 19 December 2021) was a Samoan rugby union prop who played for SCOPA and the Samoa national rugby union team. Grey made his debut for Samoa in 2014 in Samoa's 4 Test series [1] and was part of the squad at the 2015 Rugby World Cup. [2] He spent some time in Ireland after arriving in 2006 and departed in ...
The American Samoa national rugby union team, also known as the "Talavalu", represents the American Samoa Rugby Union in international rugby union. As of September 2023, it is the lowest ranked World Rugby team. [1] The Talavalu is the name of a traditional Samoan war weapon, originally carved out of ironwood.
Samoa thought it was ready for the Rugby World Cup after going closer than anyone in more than a year to beating top-ranked Ireland on a rainy night in Bayonne. The Samoans found gaps, stood their ...
Samoa at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. The Samoa women's national rugby union team is a national sporting side of Samoa, representing the nation at rugby union. The side first played in 2000, and have competed in three Rugby World Cup's since their debut in the 2002 tournament in Spain. In 2023, they claimed their first Oceania Championship.
Pan Am Flight 806 was an international scheduled flight from Auckland, New Zealand, to Los Angeles, California, with intermediate stops at Pago Pago, American Samoa and Honolulu, Hawaii. On January 30, 1974, the Boeing 707 Clipper Radiant crashed on approach to Pago Pago International Airport, killing 87 passengers and ten crew members.
Rugby union is governed by Lakapi Samoa who are also members of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance. Samoa were awarded 'second tier' status by the International Rugby Board which entitles them to funding from the IRB. Lakapi Samoa was founded in 1924, as the "Apia Rugby Union", and affiliated to the NZRFU in the same year. [2] As the Western ...