Ferguson was 16 and unconnected to the club when eight United players and 15 others died, 55 years ago on Wednesday, as a result of a failed take-off on a slush-covered runway.
In addition, from 1976 to 1979 he made a fortune as football adviser to Saudi Arabia, but lost much of it when he bought the Detroit Express club, a venture which failed miserably after the sport failed to take off in the US.
The far right failed to take off as a serious electoral force in the 1970s, and it's failed again now.
Agang had failed to take off.
Unsurprisingly perhaps, it failed to take off.
That may be why the work failed to take off.
To date, this culinary trend has failed to take off.
Many of Google's new services have failed to take off.
When the Ashbrook candidacy failed to take off, National Review endorsed the Nixon-Agnew ticket.
MySpace failed to take off because of management mistakes after the purchase, said Murdoch.
Even before the trouble around its celebrity co-founder, Waywire failed to take off.
