Monday, February 4, 2008

Football world pays tribute to the victims of the Munich tragedy...


The Munich air crash, which killed 23 people(including Man Utd stars)on 6th Feb,1958 will always stay in the hearts of the football fraternity. Let us come together and pay tribute to all those heros who lost their lives in this terrible disaster...

(what had happened?)

The Munich air disaster took place on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at the Munich-Riem airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the Busby Babes, along with a number of supporters and journalists. Twenty-three of the 44 passengers on board the aircraft died in the disaster.

-Wikipedia

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