This is the draft cover design of a new book on the Munich air disaster, written by aviation historian Steve Morrin.

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The cover features a photo of the 'Busby Babes' on the football pitch, above and below, the wreckage of the Airspeed Ambassador plane which crashed on 6 February 1958.


Steve Morrin, author of 'The Munich Air Disaster'.

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