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The Kegworth air disaster occurred when British Midland Airways Flight 092, a Boeing 737-400, crashed onto the motorway embankment between the M1 motorway and A453 road near Kegworth, Leicestershire, England, while attempting to make an emergency landing at East Midlands Airport on 8 January 1989.
On 13 January 1989 ZD891 a Panavia Tornado GR1 of No. 14 Squadron RAF collided with a German Air Force Alpha Jet during a practice attack on Wittmund airfield, West Germany, two killed. [55] On 13 April 1989 XZ359 a SEPECAT Jaguar GR.1A of No. 41 Squadron RAF flew into a cliff near St. Abb's Head, Berwickshire, one RAF Officer killed. [55]
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The Royal Air Force Regiment (RAF Regiment, or RAF Rgt) was headed by the Commandant-General, RAF Regiment and Director-General of Security with the rank of air vice-marshal, [41] [42] who was responsible for security at all Royal Air Force installations. The RAF Regiment served as the Royal Air Force's airbase defence corps. The regiment ...
1989 Berlin Wall defectee ... British European Airways Flight 548 [59] ... Panamanian Air Force FAP-205 crash: John Tower: United States 1991
1989 Soviet Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 crash; A. Air Ontario Flight 1363; 1989 Alice Springs hot air balloon crash; Aloha IslandAir Flight 1712; Avianca Flight 203; B.
7 September – Heidi Hazell, the 26-year-old wife of a British soldier, is shot dead in Dortmund, West Germany. 8 September – The IRA admits responsibility for the murder of Heidi Hazell. The act is condemned as "evil and cowardly" by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and as "the work of a psychopath" by Opposition Leader Neil Kinnock.
The crash-landing of British Airways Flight 38 on 17 January 2008 received worldwide media attention despite there being only minor injuries among the occupants. 2000. 6 February – Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 805, operated by Boeing 727-228 YA-FAY, was hijacked on a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Kabul, Afghanistan to Mazar-i-Sharif.