Frits Goodings

Frits Goodings

Personal information
Date of birth	(1963-10-10)10 October 1963
Date of death	7 June 1989(1989-06-07) (aged 25)
Place of death	Paramaribo, Suriname
Youth career
	FC Utrecht
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
????–1989	FC Wageningen	?	(?)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Frits Goodings (10 October 1963 – 7 June 1989) was a Dutch footballer who played for FC Utrecht and FC Wageningen. He died at the age of 25, when on 7 June 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo.

Career

Goodings was born Paramaribo. He played in the youth teams of FC Utrecht alongside his friend, Edu Nandlal. His first professional contract was signed at FC Wageningen.

Death

Both Goodings and Nandlal were invited by Sonny Hasnoe, the founder of the Colourful 11 to be part of the team travelling to Suriname to play in the "Boxel Kleurrijk Tournament" with three Surinamese teams. The Surinam Airways Flight PY764 crashed during approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport, killing 176 of the 187 on board, making it the worst ever aviation disaster in Suriname's history. Gooding was among the 15 members of the 18-man Colourful 11 contingent to be killed; only three of them survived, of which Edu Nandlal was one.

His father, Frits Goodings, Sr., only found his empty wallet in the woods around Paramaribo at the location of the crash. It was said the victims were robbed from their personal belongings just after the crash.

References

• Goodings at AndroKnel.nl Archived 4 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch)
• Crash report
• Eindbestemming Zanderij, nu.nl (in Dutch)
• Iwan Tol: Eindbesteming Zanderij; het vergeten verhaal van het Kleurrijk Elftal (ISBN 9020403664) (in Dutch)