Harry Gregg played 210 league games for Manchester United as goalkeeper
Munich and Manchester – Goalkeeper Harry Gregg saves the lives of four people in the Munich air disaster and goes down in history as a hero. On Monday the Nordire died.
British football mourns the loss of life saver and Munich hero Harry Gregg.
The former goalkeeper of Manchester United, who, among other things, pulled a pregnant woman, her daughter and his team-mates Bobby Charlton and Jackie Blanchflower out of the wreckage in the tragic plane crash of the “Busby Babes” on February 6, 1958, died at the age of 87. This was announced by the “Harry Gregg Foundation” on Facebook.
Gregg fell asleep peacefully in the hospital with his family, the announcement said. The former Northern Ireland international, with a transfer fee of 23,500 pounds, once the most expensive keeper in the world, always spoke very reservedly of his heroic deed in Munich. “If that was all that made up my life, I wouldn’t have achieved much,” he said at the 2018 commemoration.
Airplane explodes during take-off attempt in Riem
The plane was originally intended to take passengers to Manchester, but in winter conditions at Munich-Riem airport it came off the runway on its third attempt and exploded. Of the 44 passengers, 23 died, including eight United players.
Gregg escaped the inferno, but then returned to rescue the injured before the plane exploded.
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