Bremen Memorial

Thanks all: more related things to look at! One never stops learning.

Thanks for posting that Sabrejet. As J Boyle says there have been a number of highlighted accidents concerning sports teams. One that seems not to have been so well publicised, perhaps because not featuring an internationally famous team, was that involving Valetta WJ474 on 6 January 1954 at Aldbury on route from Bovingdon to Thorney Island with an RAF rugby team. Sixteen died, and the one survivor was later my flying instructor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_Flight_005

Was landing with a tailwind normal practice; I guess it must have been if there was a limit for a tailwind (of only five knots) at Bremen airport?

It just seems strange to be landing with a tailwind at all if there was an option not to, especially with such a narrow margin for error in the acceptable limits?

Sad, and as you say pretty much unknown today except by those affected by the mishap.
There have been several sports team crashes.
Obviously, the best known in the UK is the Manchester Untied crash in Germany, and the Rugby team survival ordeal in the Andes is well known.
In February 1961, the entire US Figure Skating team was lost in a Sabena crash in Belgium. It was the first crash of a 707 in commercial service.
Several university sports teams have been lost in crashes in the U.S. and, no doubt, elsewhere.

As usual, there is a list on Wiki…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_involving_sports_teams

Thanks for sharing that moment in history, I wasn’t aware of this particular crash.