Manchester United Plane Crash 1985

Fifty five people were killed when a british airtours plane bound for corfu caught fire on the runway at manchester airport in august 1985.

Manchester united plane crash 1985. Manchester united will host a service at old trafford from 240pm on tuesday to mark the 60th anniversary of the munich air disaster with turnstiles at the lower east stand to open from 130pm. Flames spread from one of the aircrafts engines to the. Fifty five people died when a corfu bound british airtours boeing 737 caught fire as it was speeding down the runway at manchester airport on august 22 1985. The munich air disaster occurred on 6 february 1958 when british european airways flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush covered runway at munich riem airport west germanyon the plane was the manchester united football team nicknamed the busby babes along with supporters and journalists.

Twenty of the 44 on the aircraft died at the scene. The aircraft a boeing 737236 registered g bgjl previously named goldfinch but at the time of the accident named river orrin was flown by british. The teams flight back to manchester was delayed an hour because one of the players forgot. British airtours flight 28m was an international passenger flight which caught fire before takeoff at manchester airport england on 22 august 1985 with the loss of 55 livesit was en route to corfu international airport in greece.

A 3 3 tie with red star meant that manchester united moved on to the semi finals of the european cup.