Accident aérien de Munich

L'accident aérien de Munich est une catastrophe aérienne survenue le 6 février 1958 à 15 h 9 GMT, sur l'aéroport de Munich-Riem. L'Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador effectuant le vol British European Airways 609 s'écrase en bout de piste lors de sa troisième tentative de décollage, sur une piste enneigée. L'avion transporte alors les membres de l'équipe du Manchester United Football Club surnommée les Busby Babes, ainsi que plusieurs supporters et journalistes.

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The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. The aircraft was carrying the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes", along with supporters and journalists. There were 44 people on board, 20 of whom died at the scene. The injured, some unconscious, were taken to Munich's Rechts der Isar Hospital, where three more died, resulting in 23 fatalities, with 21 survivors. The Manchester United team were returning from a European Cup match in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, having eliminated Red Star Belgrade to advance to the semi-finals of the competition. The flight stopped to refuel in Munich, because a non-stop flight from Belgrade to Manchester was beyond the range of the "Elizabethan"-class Airspeed Ambassador. After refuelling, pilots James Thain and Kenneth Rayment twice abandoned take-off because of boost surging in the left engine. Fearing they would fall too far behind schedule, Thain rejected an overnight stay in Munich in favour of a third take-off attempt. By that time, snow was falling, causing a layer of slush to form at the end of the runway. After hitting the slush, the aircraft ploughed through a fence beyond the end of the runway, and the left wing was ripped off when it struck a house. The tail section broke off and hit a barn with a parked fuel truck in it, which caught fire and exploded. Fearing the aircraft might explode, Thain began evacuating passengers, while goalkeeper Harry Gregg helped pull survivors from the wreckage. An investigation by West German airport authorities originally blamed Thain, saying he did not de-ice the aircraft's wings, despite eyewitness statements indicating that de-icing was unnecessary. The last inquiry by the UK Board of Trade, released in 1969, found that the crash was caused by snow slush on the runway that slowed the plane too much to allow takeoff, and that Captain Thain was not to blame. United were aiming to become the third club to win three successive Football League titles. They were six points behind league leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers, with 14 games still to play. They held the FA Charity Shield and had just advanced into their second successive European Cup semi-finals. The team had not been beaten for 11 matches. The crash not only derailed the team's title ambitions that year but also destroyed the nucleus of what promised to be one of the greatest generations of players in English football history. It took ten years for the club to recover after the tragedy. Busby, assisted by Murphy rebuilt the team and won the European Cup in 1968 with a new generation of "Babes".

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Moosfeld station

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Munich-Trudering station

Munich-Trudering station is an interchange station of the Munich S-Bahn and the Munich U-Bahn in the borough of Trudering-Riem in the Bavarian capital of Munich.

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Riem Arcaden

The Riem Arcaden is the largest shopping mall in Munich. It was built in the Messestadt Riem district at Willy-Brandt-Platz and designed by the Allmann Sattler Wappner firm and opened on 10 March 2004. The 122,500 m² building complex of the Riem Arcaden city quarter offers space for over 140 shops, cafés and restaurants on three floors and around 61,100 m² of retail space. In addition to various fashion brands - such as Marc O'Polo or Tommy Hilfiger- technical novelties, sports equipment, accessories, toys and home décor, doctors, a pharmacy, hairdressers, beauty salons as well as a dry cleaner and alteration tailor are also available for the approximately 9 million visitors each year. On the upper floor there are several cafés surrounded by shops such as Hugendubel, Müller and Zara.

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Messestadt West station

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Vingt des quarante-quatre personnes présentes dans l'avion meurent durant la catastrophe. Les blessés, pour certains inconscients après l'accident, sont transférés à l'hôpital Rechts der Isar, à Munich, où trois personnes supplémentaires mourront des suites de leurs blessures. Seules vingt-et-une personnes survivront au crash. L'équipe de Manchester United revient d'un match de Coupe d'Europe des clubs champions joué à Belgrade contre l'Étoile rouge et fait escale à Munich pour un ravitaillement en carburant, l'autonomie des Airspeed Ambassador ne permettant pas un vol direct jusqu'à Manchester. L'enquête sur le drame a créé des tensions diplomatiques entre le Royaume-Uni et l'Allemagne de l'Ouest.

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