Tangled wreckage of the British European Airways flight 609 - the Airspeed Ambassador (Elizabethan class), which crushed at Munich Airport today when bringing home members of the Manchester United football team from their European Cup Match in Belgrade. The airliner is reported to have crashed into houses of a village when failing to make the take-off from the airport. [Munich air disaster, aviation, accident, tragedy, aeroplane, transport] 7 February 1958