Few players and staff members of the Man

Few players and staff members of the Manchester United football team, and sport journalists prepare to board, in February 1958 in Manchester, the BEA Elizabethan plane, which will crash in a blizzard on Munich airport 06 February 1958. The aircraft stopped at the snowbound German airport to refuel and crashed on its third attempt to take off, as the Manchester "Busby Babes" team returned from Belgrade after beating Red Star Belgrade in the European Cup. Twenty-one passengers on board the aircraft lost their lives, including eight players of the team. From L to R : journalist Don Davies, Jack Blanchflower, William Foulkes, club secretary Walter Crickmer, Roger Byrne, Duncan Edwards, Albert Scanlon, journalist Frank Swift, Ray Wood, Dennis Viollet, Daily Mirror journalist Archie Ledbrooke, Geoff Bent, Mark Jones, journalist Alf Clarke. (Photo credit should read OFF/AFP via Getty Images)