Twenty-three people on board the Elizabethan charter aircraft G-ALZU lost their lives in the Munich air crash on February 6, 1958. There were 21 survivors.
By clicking on each of the links below you can find out more information about each person, including, where available, where they are buried.
Players killed
Geoff Bent
Roger Byrne
Eddie Colman
Duncan Edwards
Mark Jones
David Pegg
Tommy Taylor
Liam (Billy) Whelan
Journalists killed
Alf Clarke
Don Davies
George Follows
Tom Jackson
Archie Ledbrooke
Henry Rose
Eric Thompson
Frank Swift
Also killed
Walter Crickmer – club secretary who was in charge of the side during the war.
Bert Whalley – Chief Coach. Former left-half at Old Trafford.
Tom Curry – Trainer.
Capt Kenneth Rayment – Co-Pilot
Bela Miklos – Travel Agent
Willie Satinoff – Supporter
Tommy Cable – Steward
MUFC Players/Staff who survived
Matt Busby (Manager)
Johnny Berry
Jackie Blanchflower
Bobby Charlton
Bill Foulkes
Harry Gregg
Ken Morgans
Albert Scanlon
Dennis Viollet
Ray Wood
Journalists who survived
Frank Taylor
Photographers
Peter Howard
Ted Ellyard
Passengers who survived
Mrs Vera Lukic – **Contrary to popular belief, Mrs Lukic is NOT the mother of John Lukic, who played in goal for Arsenal and Leeds**
Mrs Lukic’s baby
Mrs Bela Miklos – wife of travel agent who arranged trip
Mr B Tomasevic – passenger
**I have been told that Mrs Miklos is in fact Mrs Bela. In that part of the world it is common to place surnames first. The English equivalent of Miklos is Michael – Bela being the couples surname. It is actually a Magyar langauge name – a legacy of the old Hungarian empire in many parts of the Balkans. While technically Bela Miklos, for her husband, is the correct form to use in that part of the world, Mrs Miklos should be called Mrs Bela.
Crew who survived
James Thain – Captain
Rosemary Cheverton – Stewardess
Margaret Bellis – Stewardess
George William Rodgers – Radio Officer
