Manchester United Munich plane crash

Manchester United Munich plane crash
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Type 1	plane crash
Type 2	team DCP
Year	1958
Date	02/06
Place	Munich, West Germany
Numbers	44
Perps (italic is official story)	Manchester United
Linked to
• Superga air disaster (1949)	• Miracle of the Andes (1972) • LaMia Flight 2933 (2016)
Programming	Superga air disaster (pre-) LaMia Flight 2933 (post-)
Jet rule Zal rule	Surviving Disaster (2006, 2008) United (2011)
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The Manchester United Munich plane crash was a team DCP plane crash psyop taking place on February 6, 1958. British European Airways flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport, West Germany. 23 out of 44 passengers died, 20 survived.

Official story

• The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958 when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport, West Germany. On the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes", along with supporters and journalists. Twenty of the 44 on the aircraft died at the scene. The injured, some unconscious, were taken to the Rechts der Isar Hospital in Munich where three more died, resulting in 23 fatalities with 21 survivors. • The team was returning from a European Cup match in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, having eliminated Red Star Belgrade to advance to the semi-finals of the competition. The flight stopped to refuel in Munich because a non-stop flight from Belgrade to Manchester was beyond the "Elizabethan"-class Airspeed Ambassador's range. After refuelling, pilots James Thain and Kenneth Rayment twice abandoned take-off because of boost surging in the left engine. Fearing they would get too far behind schedule, Captain Thain rejected an overnight stay in Munich in favour of a third take-off attempt. By then, snow was falling, causing a layer of slush to form at the end of the runway. After the aircraft hit the slush, it ploughed through a fence beyond the end of the runway and the left wing was torn off after hitting a house. Fearing the aircraft might explode, Thain began evacuating passengers while Manchester United goalkeeper Harry Gregg helped pull survivors from the wreckage. • An investigation by West German airport authorities originally blamed Thain, saying he did not de-ice the aircraft's wings, despite eyewitness statements to the contrary. It was later established that the crash was caused by the slush on the runway, which slowed the plane too much to take off. Thain was cleared in 1968, ten years after the incident.

Wikipedia

Analysis

Photos

• Magical recovery of Albert ShanTon, housband [sic of woman in the photo]

Videos

Short clip from British TV about the crash

Short clip from British TV about the crash

• Surviving Disaster - Manchester United Munich plane crash
• "that's the problem with Munich, high altitude, planes don't like the thin air", 31:00 in the video

• WHUTT????

Story

• Albert ScanLon, who escaped with a fractured skull and a broken leg, talked about the profound psychological scars that had stayed with him and Kenny Morgans, the youngest player involved in the crash, explained he did not usually like to talk too much about it. Morgans was the last survivor to be rescued from the burnt-out BEA Elizabethan after being found under the wheels five hours after the official search was called off.

• Rrrright!
• What is it now; ShanLon or ShanTon? Or ShaMton/ShaMlon??

See also

• List of psyops
  • Air Indiana Flight 216 (1977)

External links

• Plane crashes involving sports teams
• Listverse - Top 10 sporting airline disasters
• Wikipedia - List of accidents involving sports teams