United: Survivors remember Munich victims

SURVIVORS of the Munich air disaster gathered yesterday to pay tribute to their fallen colleagues as Manchester United marked the 50th anniversary of the tragedy.

Bobby Charlton, Bill Foulkes, Harry Gregg, Kenny Morgans and Albert Scanlon joined the families of 19 of the 23 passengers who died as a result of the injuries they suffered when BEA Flight 609 ZU crashed on take-off on February 6, 1958.

On an emotional afternoon at Old Trafford’s Manchester Suite, they sat alongside hundreds of invited guests with thousands more gathered outside to mark the occasion, while a ceremony took place in Munich at the same time.