Friday, December 26, 2008

Question - 143

The first visual shows one of the entrances into London's Old Trafford stadium while the second is that of a clock in the stadium that always shows the same time. Why the references to Munich in a British stadium?

Answer
: The references are to the infamous Munich air disaster of 1958 that killed 8 Manchester United players and several staff members and journalists that were traveling with them. Anand, Arvind, Vateez, Vijay, Anshul, Manix and Hirak got it. Well done.

7 comments:

Anand said...

munich air disaster in 1958 killed Man U players.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_air_disaster

Anonymous said...

To commemorate the Munich air disaster in which a number of Manchester United players and staff died in 1958.

imitator said...

munich air disaster

Anonymous said...

This a service tunnel in the Old Trafford football stadium. This was dedicated to the members of the Manchester United team who died in the plane crash in Munich in 1958. This was done on the 50th Anniversary of the disaster.

The clock in the stadium indicates the time of the disaster in Munich when the crash happened.

AJ said...

That was easy ... It is the time of the 1958 air crash in Munich, in which, the carrier slid of the runway on the third attempt at take off and killed all but three players on the team. Sir Bobby Charlton being one of the survivors.

Anonymous said...

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster in 1958.

hirak said...

Their team died in a plane crash from Munich, 1958.