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Munich air disaster


 

The Munich air disaster occurred on February 6, 1958, when Flight BE609, a British European Airways "Elizabethan" class Airspeed Ambassador charter aircraft G-ALZU 'Lord Burghley', carrying players and backroom staff of Manchester United F.C., plus a number of journalists and supporters, crashed in a blizzard on its third attempt to take off from Munich-Riem airport.

Notes

  • {{note|legend39}} Manchester United — The Betrayal of a Legend 39.
  • {{note|legend46}} Manchester United — The Betrayal of a Legend 46.
  • {{note|Murphy}} Murphy had not travelled to Belgrade as was away managing the Welsh national team at the time.