On February 6, 1958, a plane carrying the "Busby Babes," the Manchester United football team, crashed on its third attempt to take off. From: AIR DISASTERS: Mayday Munich bit.ly/1qy9fHN
@@holmbjerg blame the English football association for that. unlike today Manchester United, when playing in Europe, weren't given extra time between European and league matches. They had to get back to Manchester for thier next sheduled leagye game or have pounts deducted if they miss playing it. The Disaster happened on a Thursday , uniteds next match could have been as close as two days later. It chsnged after the disaster. Unitedceere given dispensation as they beded to get a team togther. Matt Busby went against the FA taking united into european competition , the FA pushed back. They were under pressure to get home. Ive been reading up on the two pilot, cpts Thain and Rayment They were both experienced ex RAF pilots especially Cpt Thain.
Slush on the runway prevented the plane from reaching takeoff speed, thus the plane simply sped into the buildings at the airport rather than lift off.
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Frank Taylor (The News Chronicle), who usually sat at the back with the other journalists, moved to a seat near the front for the third take-off attempt. He was the only one of the journalists to survive.
But remember a retired Frank Swift, former MCFC keeper who had become a newspaper reporter was also killed in Munich. He was the first keeper to ever come off his line to punch crosses clear.
On tonight's episode of Air Disasters, a survivor from a 1958 crash carrying the British football team Manchester United recalls his experience. Air Disasters - Mayday Munich: Manchester United's Darkest Day
The English football association has questions to answer. United should have stayed over in Munich for a night but the FA who didn't want English clubs in Europe told them they had to come home to play there next match or be docked points in the league
It was still a dangerous time then ... when the boss of my mom flew from munich to eg hamburg, she always had to go to an office to set him on the flight insurance list. Modern turbofan engines are powerful enough to get through such situations and allow even some then impossible maneuvers like near verticals
I know that German investigators doubled down and tripled down on the Ice on the Wings theory, but I blame the slush that was in the region of where the Elizabethan would have been able to attain V2. Instead, the slush acted like a parachute, slowing it down at a critical point, robbing the aircraft of momentum to get airborne
One of the biggest what ifs in Football history, Players like Duncan Edwards could have become the greatest United player in history, His talent was promising
the thing is its not the ice on the wings that caused the plane to crash it was some idiots who work at that stupid airport because they did not clear the entire runway of snow and slush
The lead German investigator wasn't interested in any other explanation for the crash other than ice on the wings. The snow from the runway had been cleared sufficiently for jet aircraft, but piston aircraft like the Elizabethan needed more of the runway than had been cleared. The slush on the runway where it hadn't been cleared inevitably affected acceleration, contributing to the crash
So, I understand V1 and VR and V2 and Min Unstick. The second the pilots felt the plane bog down, why didn’t the go yoke full aft to try and decrease weight and drag in the slush or absorb more impact into the belly of the aircraft?
I think if was the guys from Man U I would rather stuck for the night than have to go thru a 3 time trying to take off that plant have been grounded until was fixed
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You can die getting out of bed or walking out your door too... Can't live your life in fear & in this case aviation crashes arent common at all so that shouldn't be such a concerning thought. When you have that many lives depending on you then you just have to buckle down & focus.
Daniel Treadwell da fu- soccer players might not fight aggresively, but we know damn well they dont bump other people onto the damn ice or wall, they might tackle for the ball, but they know not to push someone in the stands, unless they're angry at the player, but all ice hockey is is skating around with sticks and having big tough guys pushing each other for some damn black thing and hitting it with the sticks and put it in a small goal, which is smaller than me, and im 12, and how would they win, if there are things called tactics, there definently not even seen, it looks like every team uses the same play style and just goes out and play hockey. You say that hockey players are "real men" meaning tough, yeah we all see that, but that doesn't mean soccer players aren't tough too, have you seen fights between players, teams, and heck have all the fans come in and help their team, but who cares, that's your opinion, and this is mine, now shut up, back your bags, and go on to Scotland too because they invented hockey, not some big canadians who like to push each other around and are wanna be gladiators
3:54 so that’s how it’s happened wow through the years when I see the Munich air disaster through the years via RU-vid I thought it’s was crash at mid air.
IM a united fan and it was indeed there darkest day. Actually never mind Uniteds darkest day was when Man City became a club. Or when they won the title last year.
I agree with Lana! Someone with good judgment could made the simple decision of waiting until conditions improved. It would’ve made a world of difference.
I love how judgemental people get when they watch videos like this. They think they're some kind of experts. 1) This video is very short and general so you don't know what happened. 2) You are not a pilot (I assume atleast) so I'm pretty sure you're not qualified to make a judgement. 3) You were not in that situation and when things get that tense people get nervous and adrenaline kicks in so they might make mistakes. It's easy to say they should've done that behind your screen. But when the real situation arises things are different.
Always terrible. Never going to forget duncan edwards, he would have been one of the best english players of all time, so much potential and he was amazing with his defending and build-up
How is it the saddest day of your “life” if u never experienced it or born during it u experience a sad moment then u can say that is the saddest day of ur life just say darkest day for Manchester united
20 ppl died 1 died on the way to the hospital bringing the death toll to 21 and 20 survived your welcome and RIP to all the lost souls on board the flight.
While it sounds crazy, throughout history urbanizations have been built around airports (no matter the noise the aircraft make or the risk they pose). While reasons for the creation of this urbanized areas changes from case to case, people still build and live around airports, no matter the discomforts or the potential risks.
It depends at what point there is an emergency. Before V1, you can try to stop within the runway limits. After V1, you need to make the airplane fly... or break hard and pray the plane stops quickly (because it's, most likely, not going to stop within the runway left).
