Anniversary of the air disaster

[Bluekiwi]

United lost some very good players in that crash. In those days I didn't despise them and had little problem acknowledging the talent of players like Duncan Edwards and Eddie Coleman.
My elder sister changed colours after the crash and even took a box of chocolates to Matt Busby's home. Even so, she never went to any of their games - she couldn't be called plastic in those days though - we didn't know if they existed.
But Bert Trautmann's picture still hung on her bedroom wall for some months.

 

[Grassland Blue]

What a sad story. The Tenerife air disaster of 1980 is very underreported and not many actually know about it.

There were 2 brothers who lost their parents in the Tenerife disaster.
One of them wanted to do something, anything, to help people who had been in an accident of any sort. He joined Stalybridge fire brigade.
The other brother, well he drank, a lot. Could never come to terms with what had happened.

 

[Shirley]

As a kid I lived close to Jackie Blanchflower and delivered the milk and newspapers to his house, which was nice but nowhere similar to the mansions the current footballers live in today.
A very friendly fellow and family who were very generous with tips.

 

[Dirty Harry]

My mate lost his parents in the Tenerife air disaster on the 25th April 1980, I was with him when he was informed his parents had died in the crash. Devastating would be an understatement, he was a 21 year old happy go lucky brilliant friend to many, just started a new career, had a lovely girlfriend and had his whole life in front of him.

He started drinking heavily, gave up his job, lost his gf and most of his mates, he became a recluse.

He was left a small fortune, his Dad was a Company Director, but he lost everything, only child, house, death benefit, investments and savings, he blew the lot. He’s 63 now, on his own, no family and will not make contact with anyone.

I know it’s the younger generation who used to think it was ok to call those who lost their lives “Munichs” and make physical gestures but thankfully its a thing of the past and I for one will raise a glass to those mostly young men who perished in that disaster.

What a sad story. The Tenerife air disaster of 1980 is very underreported and not many actually know about it.

I vaguely remember this as a youngster, but just read the report and the sequence of events that led to the disaster, it’s actually mind boggling, talk about fate conspiring !
Without wishing to make light of it, some of it reminded me of when you contact a call centre that’s based abroad and there’s a clear language barrier, so much of it could have been avoided, and you’re right Millwall, considering it’s the biggest disaster in aviation history, just incredibly sad !

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I vaguely remember this as a youngster, but just read the report and the sequence of events that led to the disaster, it’s actually mind boggling, talk about fate conspiring !
Without wishing to make light of it, some of it reminded me of when you contact a call centre that’s based abroad and there’s a clear language barrier, so much of it could have been avoided, and you’re right Millwall, considering it’s the biggest disaster in aviation history, just incredibly sad !

It’s not actually that one that he is referring to. That was the one where two planes collided on the runway in fog wasn’t it?

This one was a Dan Air flight from Manchester that crashed into a mountain 3 years later. Very underreported considering it has local connections.

Dan-Air Flight 1008 - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Dirty Harry]

It’s not actually that one that he is referring to. That was the one where two planes collided on the runway in fog wasn’t it?

This one was a Dan Air flight from Manchester that crashed into a mountain 3 years later. Very underreported considering it has local connections.

Dan-Air Flight 1008 - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Apologies, my mind’s playing tricks on me .
Did the back end of the fuselage clip the top of the mountain ?

 

[hammocity]

Apologies, my mind’s playing tricks on me .
Did the back end of the fuselage clip the top of the mountain ?

The pilot misunderstood his instruction from the Control Tower, there was a series of bad decisions which led to the plane hitting the mountain, you can read the full description:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422fc6940f0b61346000943/8-1981_G-BDAN.pdf

 

[bongsblue]

As a 3 year old no recollection of Munich but both my parents who are/were Blues had vivid recollections of the impact the crash had. My dad recalled pals crying at work. I have the programme for the first City home game after the disaster and the first half of it is completely devoted to United. The recollections and tributes to rivals and friends lost are very moving. Different times as others have said. My father in law was a dyed in the wool red but he went to Maine Road on alternate weeks because he thought it was a treat to be able to watch great players for a couple of bob. He could name City's team for matches he watched in the mid 50's and extol their virtues as players.
The Tenerife crash was sadly something I did have a connection with in that I lost a work colleague who was travelling to the island with his family to take a holiday. Only chance saw him travelling on that flight, as ever I suppose, because he had planned to travel elsewhere but surcharges had been imposed on his original planned holiday so they had switched to Tenerife.

 

[KS55]

Dennis Viollet was my games teacher at school in 1966. Great player for them.

Especially his og against Bert in his testimonial!

 

[west didsblue]

A special day - I do not want to distract the thread but 3 points that stick in my memory from that day

1/ Am I right to see the fact that the scum were able to have Man City at home on that anniversary date as an example of how they had sooooo much control and influence over fixtures? or am I just being paranoid?

2/ How good was it to see the behaviour of the CITY fans - the scum biased media were well pissed off that we did not provide the headlines they sought

3/ What a fucking result - totally blew the pre-arranged narrative away

Anyway - back on topic - indeed, it was a sad event indeed - especially given the CITY connections

No need to call them the scum on this thread. That’s football rivalry. This is about people losing their lives. Plenty of other threads where they can be referred to in whatever way you want. My family lost someone on that flight and so did many other families from both the red and blue sides of the city.