Anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster
Gone but not forgotten
On the February 6, 1958, the British European Airways Flight 609 crashed in a blizzard on its third attempt to take off from an icy runway at the Munich-Riem airport in Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed at the time as the Busby Babes, along with a number of supporters and journalists. Twenty-three of the 43 passengers on board the aircraft died in the disaster.