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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.
a pilot, whose name has not yet been made public at the request of the family, who was undergoing her annual evaluation flight. [28] NPR reported that the unnamed soldier was "a female pilot with 500 hours of flying experience" and that "the withholding of a name in instances like this is a highly unusual move." [29]
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Ryan O’Hara, a soldier on board the military helicopter that collided with American Airlines Flight 5342, is being remembered by a fellow service member as “one of the finest, most disciplined ...
The name of the third soldier — a female pilot, according to the New York Times — has yet to be revealed. “At the request of the family, the name of the third Soldier will not be released at ...
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The U.S. had not had a major commercial plane crash since 2009, when a Colgan Air wreck outside Buffalo, New York, killed 50 people, including one on the ground.
1989 – British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737, crashes near Kegworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom after one of its engines loses a fan blade and fails. Of the 118 passengers and 8 crew, 79 survive. The incident became known as the Kegworth air disaster and is the first loss of a Boeing 737-400.