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The Menu Card, Fourteen Signatures-and Eight Never Returned
The Menu Card, Fourteen Signatures-and Eight Never Returned
A preserved menu card from a Belgrade hotel dinner lists fourteen signatures - eight of those men never came home after the Munich air disaster. Why did a runway decision, a written warning, and three attempted takeoffs end with twenty-three dead and a generation of talent lost?
In this episode, we tell who these players were, what happened on the Riem Airport runway that afternoon, and why one engineer's written recommendation was ignored - could those eight men have been saved?
Person: Duncan Edwards
Person: Roger Byrne
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