50 years

In ¨The Munich Air Crash¨, published in the History Today, Richard Cavendish introduces the anniversary of the crash of an aircraft containing the Manchester United soccer team in Munich airport on February 6, 1958.

Cavendish starts by introducing who is Manchester United. After World War Two United became one of the most popular football team in England. Matt Busby their Scottish manager was the first one to lead an English club to enter the European Cup.

He then explains that there was snow and ice in the runways for the plane to land. After two tries to land the plane, the pilot was not getting enough power from the engines but he was determine to land the plane. In the third try the plane crash strait into a wooden fence and caught on fire. ¨Of forty-four on board, twenty-one were killed. They included seven United players and three officials.¨(1)

Richard finally talks about how the news impacted the rest of the world. All the matches and tickets for future matches where suspended. There was a concert in memory of the people who died in the crash. He then concludes by saying that ten years later United was the first English Club to win the European Cup. He finishes by saying that Sir Bobby Charlton said in his autobiography that ¨ he had never got over feeling guilty because by sheer luck he had survived when friends and team-mates hd perish.¨(1)

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