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.

Survivors

Manchester United players

• Johnny Berry
• Jackie Blanchflower
• Dennis Viollet
• Ray Wood

Still living:

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• Bobby Charlton
• Bill Foulkes
• Harry Gregg
• Ken Morgans
• Albert Scanlon

Other survivors

• Matt Busby - Team manager

Still living:

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• Frank Taylor - Journalist
• Peter Howard - Photographer
• Ted Ellyard - Photographer
• Mrs Vera Lukic and baby daughter - Passengers (saved by Manchester United player Harry Gregg)
• Mrs Miklos - Wife of Bela Miklos, the travel agent that arranged trip and died in the crash
• Mr N Tomasevic - Passenger
• James Thain - Captain
• Rosemary Cheverton - Stewardess
• Margaret Bellis - Stewardess