United were returning from Belgrade where they had just beaten Red Star Belgrade in the European Cup and had stopped off at Munich for re-fuelling.

Twenty-three of the forty-three passengers on board the aircraft lost their lives in the disaster.

Table of contents

1 Victims 2 Survivors 3 See Also 4 External links

Victims

Manchester United players

• Roger Byrne
• Mark Jones
• Duncan Edwards
• Eddie Colman
• Tommy Taylor
• Liam Whelan
• David Pegg
• Geoff Bent

• Walter Crickmer - Club secretary
• Bert Whalley - Chief Coach
• Tom Curry - Trainer
• Alf Clarke - Journalist, Manchester Evening Chronicle
• Don Davies - Journalist, Manchester Guardian
• George Follows - Journalist, Daily Herald
• Tom Jackson - Journalist, Manchester Evening News
• Archie Ledbrooke - Journalist, Daily Mirror
• Henry Rose - Journalist, Daily Express
• Eric Thompson - Journalist, Daily Mail
• Frank Swift - Journalist, News of the World
• Capt Kenneth Rayment - Co-Pilot
• Bela Miklos - Travel Agent
• Willie Satinoff - Supporter
• Tom Cable - Steward

• Johnny Berry
• Jackie Blanchflower
• Bobby Charlton
• Bill Foulkes
• Harry Gregg
• Ken Morgans
• Albert Scanlon
• Dennis Viollet
• Ray Wood

• Matt Busby - Team manager
• Frank Taylor - Journalist
• Peter Howard - Photographer
• Ted Ellyard - Photographer
• Mrs Vera Lukic and baby daughter - Passengers
• Mrs Miklos - Wife of travel agent who arranged trip and died in crash
• Mr N Tomasevic - Passenger
• James Thain - Captain
• Rosemary Cheverton - Stewardess
• Margaret Bellis - Stewardess

• List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners