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	Munich air disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Twenty-three of the 43 passengers on board the aircraft died in the disaster.
		Their team was known as the Busby Babes, a reference to their manager Matt Busby and to the average age of the players, which was unusually young.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Munich_air_disaster (1450 words)

	Munich air disaster: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A disaster is a natural or man-made event that negatively affects life, property, livelihood or industry often resulting in permanent changes to human societies,...
		Eddie colman was one of the eight manchester united players that lost their lives in the munich air disaster on february 6, 1958....
		Geoff bent was one of the eight manchester united players that lost their lives in the munich air disaster on february 6, 1958....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/munich_air_disaster.htm (1784 words)

	Superga air disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Superga air disaster happened on Wednesday, May 4, 1949, when a plane carrying almost the entire Grande Torino squad (18 players), plus management, journalists and crew, crashed into the Superga hills near Turin, killing everyone on board.
		Also Barcelona player Ladislao Kubala was due to fly out to play in the match, but at the last minute didn't do it because of his son's ill health.
		Munich air disaster, 1958, which killed many in the then Manchester United F.C. team.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Superga_air_disaster (255 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Munich Air Disaster
		The Munich air disaster on February 6, 1958, in which an Airspeed Ambassador carrying members of the Manchester United football club crashed while attempting to take off in slushy conditions.
		The Air India Bombing of June 23, 1985 was the largest mass-murder in Canadian history, caused by a bomb placed in checked luggage.
		Air France Flight 4590 was a Concorde flight from Charles de Gaulle International Airport near Paris, France to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, New York, which crashed on July 25, 2000, in Gonesse, France shortly after takeoff, killing all on board and four on the ground.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Munich-Air-Disaster (551 words)

	Munich Air Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Even when disaster strikes, your company is not off the hook for compliance.
		For the plan to be effective in a crisis, you need to review and reevaluate your recovery strategies and periodically update them to reflect organizational changes and the current state of business operations.
		A disaster recovery plan will be worthless if you don't act on it every day.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Munich_Air_Disaster.html (601 words)

	Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A disaster is an unexpected natural or unintentional man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant property damage or destruction, loss of lives or sometimes permanent changes to natural environment.
		Disasters may also be used to refer to unforseen events which devastate a company or industry such as a public relations disaster or a major flop[?].
		An attack with much collateral damage may be considered a disaster, such as the attack on KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, 1945, the worst or perhaps second worst maritime incident in history, in terms of loss of life in a single vessel (see also note at the end of the article RMS Titanic).
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	Munich air disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Munich air disaster happened on February 6, 1958, when British European Flight 609, a British European Airways 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 airport.
		United were returning from Belgrade where they had just beaten Red Star Belgrade in the European Cup and had stopped off at Munich for re-fuelling.
		Twenty-three of the forty-three passengers on board the aircraft lost their lives in the disaster.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Munich_Air_Disaster (187 words)

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	Morrissey-solo \| "Morrissey to release Munich disaster song" - Ananova
		Morrissey is to release a new song about the Munich air disaster on the b-side of his new single.
		The disaster was the darkest moment in the history of Manchester United who were returning from a match in Belgrade when their plane stopped at Munich for refuelling.
		Munich Air Disaster 1958 is on the B-side along with The Never Played Symphonies of CD1 while It's Hard To Walk Tall When You're Small is on the B-side to CD2.
	www.morrissey-solo.com /articles/04/04/06/1210201.shtml (687 words)

	Munich air crash - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Munich air crash
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		Britain was stunned by the news from Munich, but in an age when communications were far less efficient, the full enormity of the tragedy took time to become clear.
		Out in Munich they were still identifying the dead on the runway, and counting the survivors.
		In Munich, Duncan Edwards underwent an operation, as his mother and father and 22 year-old fiancé Molly Leech kept a vigil at the hospital.
	www.btinternet.com /~c.beirne/public/munich.htm (2361 words)

	Carl's Cam: Memorial to the Munich Air Disaster, in St Luke's Church, Dukinfield, Cheshire. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Carl's Cam: Memorial to the Munich Air Disaster, in St Luke's Church, Dukinfield, Cheshire.
		Memorial to the Munich Air Disaster, in St Luke's Church, Dukinfield, Cheshire.
		It names the dead and the survivors of the Air Disaster at Munich on 6th February 1958.
	www.carlscam.com /dukinfield/munich.htm (393 words)

	BBC - Manchester - Sport - Munich '58: TV drama
		Now a BBC series – Surviving Disaster – is about to recreate the events in a drama documentary being broadcast on 10 January 2006.
		The first episode – Munich Air Crash - features actors playing the roles of players and reporters celebrating on the plane journey home after winning a second leg tie against Red Star Belgrade in the European Cup.
		The programme also examines the subsequent air accident investigation which eventually showed that it was slush on the runway slowing the aircraft down, rather than ice on the wings, which caused the crash.
	www.bbc.co.uk /manchester/content/articles/2005/12/15/161205_munich_air_crash_feature.shtml (721 words)

	Single Types or Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Clipper 806: The Anatomy of an Air Disaster.
		The Electra disasters were due to a phenomenon known as "whirl-mode" which was caused by the flexing of the engine pylons/nacelles in turbulence.
		The frequency of this oscillation was sympathetic with that of the wing structure and, as the oscillation became unstable (increasing in magnitude), it resulted in structural failure and wing separation.
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	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...
		Carl's Cam: Memorial to the Munich Air Disaster, in St Luke's Church...
		A tribute to the victims of the Munich air disaster was unveiled in Germany on Wednesday.
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Munich_air_disaster (364 words)

	The Munich Air Disaster - Feb 6th 1958 (Part 1) - Man Utd 24-7 (A Manchester United Fansite)
		To alleviate some of the pressure, it was decided to charter a plane for the sole use of the Manchester party, including team, officials and press.
		British European Airways (BEA) was approached and a 47 seater Air Ambassador, named the Elizabethan class by the airline, was duly acquired for the travellers.
		The route was arranged via Munich both ways for refuelling as a direct route was out of range.
	manutd.soccer24-7.com /custom/1.html (1011 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Busby Babe loses battle against cancer
		Jackie Blanchflower, one of the Busby Babes who survived the Manchester United Munich air crash, has died at the age of 65 after a long fight against cancer.
		But his career was cut short by the 1958 Munich disaster, when United's plane crashed on take-off, killing eight of the legendary Busby Babes.
		He was badly injured in the 1958 air crash, which claimed a total of 23 lives.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/163621.stm (484 words)

	man united Munich Air Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However in the early 1990s after the Hillsbrough disaster, the Taylor Report required England's top teams to have all-seater stadiums.
		On the outside is a large tinted glass front, similar to a modern office block.
		Here stands the Sir Matt Busby Statue, Munich memorial plaque and the famous clock commemorating the Munich air crash on 6th February 1958.
	www.man-united.info /munich_air_disaster.html (1206 words)

	Manchester Footballers, Bobby Charlton, Denis Law, George Best, Matt Busby, Eric Cantona and other Manchester United ...
		He played as a forward for Manchester United from 1956 to 1973, having been one of the few survivors of the Munich Air Disaster in 1958.
		Duncan Edwards played halfback for Manchester United from 1952 to 1958, when his life was tragically ended in the Munich Air Disaster.
		A survivor of the Munich Air Disaster, he was a solid centre forward, strong, fit and powerful in the air.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /sports/footballers1.html (1812 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - News - EXCLUSIVE: UNTOLD TRUTH BEHIND MUNICH TV DRAMA
		The Munich air disaster created headlines around the globe and spawned a legend that, ultimately, helped make Manchester United the biggest football club in the world.
		Andrew is angry that the makers of Surviving Disaster didn't contact his family and has vowed not to watch it.
		Harry, now 73 and living in Co. Derry, is a hero of Munich who saved the baby daughter and wife of a diplomat, along with several team-mates.
	www.mirror.co.uk /news/tm_objectid=16566506&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=still-united-in-grief--name_page.html (1207 words)

	European Cup History 1955-2005
		Following their victory in the 1958 Quarter-final tie in Belgrade, the plane carrying the Manchester United team back to England needed to stop at Munich to refuel.
		Most of the party assumed that they would have to stay in Munich until the next day when the weather might have cleared — Duncan Edwards sent a telegram home to his landlady to this effect — but it was decided to have one more try at getting the plane airborne.
		On the third attempt, the aeroplane overshot the runway, went through a fence and crossed a road before one of the wings struck a house.
	www.europeancuphistory.com /munich (418 words)

	The Munich Air Disaster 1958 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The descent into Munich through 18000 feet of cloud required switching on of the anti icing which permitted hot air heated to 60 degrees centigrade by fuel burners in the wing to be vented under pressure via ducts at the leading edges of the wings, tail plane and fin.
		MT: Munich Control clears B-line 609 ZU to the Manchester airport via amber airway one zero, green airway one, amber two, amber one and route as filed.
		The problem was therefore more acute where the air was thin at high altitude airports such as Munich which lay only 70 miles north of the Alps at an elevation of more than 1700 feet.
	www.mikekemble.bravehost.com /munich1.html (4412 words)

	Munich Air Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		was thrust into the centre of the clubâs affairs in the most harrowing of circumstances in February 1958 following the tragedy of the Munich Air Disaster.
		But for the Munich air disaster, Ramsey would also been able to call upon Duncan Edwards, who would have been 29 in July '66.
		Duncan Edwards have scaled, had he not died in the 1958 Munich air crash...
	www.wikiverse.org /munich-air-disaster (305 words)

	Worldwide Soccer information at SoccerNetUsa.com \| The Center of Soccer Tournaments and World Cup Soccer 2006
		A survivor of the Munich air disaster, a FIFA World Cup™ winner, a Knight of the British Empire but above all, a great and an honest player.
		The "Busby Babes" side was decimated by the Munich air disaster on 6 February 1958, in which eight players lost their lives.
		Charlton was a non-playing member, manager Walter Winterbottom regretting having selected him, believing that he was still suffering from the after effects of the Munich air disaster.
	www.soccernetusa.com /bobby_charlton.htm (1437 words)

	TheFA.com - Munich remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Manchester United, dubbed the 'Busby Babes' due to their unusually young average age of just 24, seemed destined for a glorious future until seven of their players were tragically killed after an air crash in Munich.
		In front of a crowd of 63,578 the Reds beat the Gunners in a nine-goal thriller with goals from Edwards, Taylor (two), Bobby Charlton and Dennis Viollet.
		Incredibly, United managed to win their first game after the disaster when a mixture of reserve and youth team players beat Sheffield Wednesday 3-1 at an emotional Old Trafford.
	www.thefa.com /TheFA/NewsFromTheFA/Postings/2006/02/THEFA_Munich.htm (478 words)

	Audio Interview with Harry Gregg - Man United
		However, he will be forever remembered as one of the Munich survivors of 1957 when his team, Manchester Utd, under the great Matt Busby were nearly wiped out in that tragic air disaster.
		Harry Gregg walked out alive from the wreckage, and in one chilling section of this interview, Harry recounts in vivid and graphic detail the events surrounding that fateful hour in which he lost many of his great team mates.
		This is a vivid and graphic account of disaster and bravery in the face of mortal danger.
	www.terracetalkireland.com /interviews/harry-gregg.htm (411 words)

	Manchester United Tribute Page
		By 2pm,the aircraft was refuelled and ready for take off.The first attempt to depart was abandoned due to "boost surging",a condition which occurs when the engines of the plane over accelerate.A second attempt to take off failed as well and the passengers were told to return to the Terminal Lounge.
		Five days later,United continued their European Cup adventure against AC Milan.Despite winning the 1st leg 1-0 at Old Trafford,United succumbed to the might of the Italians 4-0 in the return leg and so closed a most tragic season for Manchester United.
		Several years after the disaster,fl was incorporated in the Official Team Strip as a mark of respect to those who perished in the Munich Air Disaster.
	www.csn.ul.ie /~oasis/mufc/history/history9.html (300 words)

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