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.

Victims

Manchester United players

• Roger Byrne
• Mark Jones
• Duncan Edwards
• Eddie Colman
• Tommy Taylor
• Liam Whelan
• David Pegg
• Geoff Bent

Other victims

• Walter Crickmer - Club secretary
• Bert Whalley - Chief Coach
• Tom Curry - Trainer
• Alf Clarke - Journalist, Manchester Evening Chronicle
• Don Davies - Journalist, Manchester Guardian
• George Follows - Journalist, Daily Herald
• Tom Jackson - Journalist, Manchester Evening News
• Archie Ledbrooke - Journalist, Daily Mirror
• Henry Rose - Journalist, Daily Express
• Eric Thompson - Journalist, Daily Mail
• Frank Swift - Journalist, News of the World (also former England and Manchester City goalkeeper)
• Capt Kenneth Rayment - Co-pilot
• Bela Miklos - Travel Agent
• Willie Satinoff - Supporter
• Tom Cable - Steward