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Munich air crash hero and goalkeeping great Gregg dies

Hailed as a hero for saving lives in the 1958 air crash which killed eight of Manchester United's ‘Busby Babes’ in Munich, Harry Gregg has died at the age of 87. – EPA pic, February 17, 2020.

HARRY Gregg – hailed as a hero for saving lives in the air crash which killed eight of Manchester United’s “Busby Babes” in Munich – has died at the age of 87. Gregg, who was United’s goalkeeper, rescued a mother and her baby daughter, team-mates Bobby Charlton and Jackie Blanchflower and manager Matt Busby from the wreckage of the plane on February 6, 1958.

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