On 6th February 1958, the BEA flight with the complete footballl team failled to lift off the ground and crashed into a private house near Munich. 8 players, the co-pilot and 14 other passengers were killed. RIP Stefan.
The news, when first broken, shocked the nation and filled the newspapers. A terrible loss to the world of sport .......... Ron
On this the 60th anniversary of Munich the Busby Babes along with sporting journalists and officials, gone but never forgotten. RIP
At United's game on Saturday they held a minutes silence. You could still see the pain etched on Bobby Charlton's face, even after all these years. Being a boy of the 1970's, sometimes black and white footage of footballers passes me by, however, I have always thought that Duncan Edwards looked like a real classy footballer in whichever medium you watched him.
in the 70tees I lived close to the crash area and whenever I was driving around the street where the aircraft crashed I had a strange feeling and being a supporter of Bayern Munich I am happy that Bayern today is taking care of the memorial. Stefan.
That is wonderful to hear Stefan. It is easy to forget that tragedies such as these, have an effect on all invovled, not just those lost to the event.
A tragedy without doubt and took a long time to establish the cause of the crash at the former disused Munich -Riem Airport.It took 10 years to clear the pilot,Thane, of blame. Slush which had not been cleared from the the runway,adversely affected acceleration causing a delay in the rotate speed Vr, resulting in a shallow lift and collision with obstacles external to the airfield. Munich-Riem
Harry et all, tried to upload a better picture of the memorial, but it says ERROR: file does not have an allowed extension.
Stefan, It looks as if you will have to resize the image in order for the system to accept the post.You probably have a resizing tool on your computer software.
An addition to this story: Munich air disaster and Man Utd's laundry ladies - from lipstick on the collars to cleaning the coffins
May be this works better. Stefan. http://res.muenchen-p.de/.imaging/s...r-riem/gedenken--4-/document/gedenken (4).jpg
Stefan,the image limit used to be, as I recollect,10 mb but now about 3 mb. Good photograph of the remembrance..... can you get a close up photograph of the memorial?
