# 1958-02-10 Britain Mourns. Soccer Champs Die In Plane Crash

British plane on takeoff near Munich causes death of 25, including Manchester United soccer team. (partial newsreel).

This is news reel footage from the USA of the Munich air disaster in which a number of the Busby Babes, team officials and reporters were killed

The cause of the accident was later determined to have been a build-up of snow on the runway which was not cleared, causing the aircraft to slow down beneath take-off speed

- Kind: Newsreel
- Year: 1958
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Universal Studios
- Genres: News
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1958-02-10_Britain_Mourns._Soccer_Champs_Die_In_Plane_Crash.ogv)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Universal Studios
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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