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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.
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.
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4 January – A memorial service is held for the 270 people who died in the Lockerbie air disaster two weeks ago. Margaret Thatcher and several other world political leaders are among more than 200 people present in the church service at the village of Old Dryfesdale near Lockerbie. 8 January – 44 people are killed in the Kegworth air disaster.
8 January – The Kegworth air disaster: A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes onto the M1 motorway on the approach to East Midlands Airport, killing 44 people. [1] 11 January Accident investigators say that the Kegworth air disaster was caused when pilot Kevin Hunt, who survived the crash, accidentally shut down the wrong engine.
Others killed in the crash were pilot Robert N. Elliott, Croce's bandmate Maury Muehleisen, comedian George Stevens, manager and booking agent Kenneth D. Cortese, and road manager Dennis Rast. Beechcraft E18S: Natchitoches, Louisiana: Pilot's failure to see the obstruction due to physical impairment and because fog reduced his vision.
Wallace grew up near Dundee, Scotland.He attended the High School of Dundee and the University of St Andrews.. In 1989, he treated a number of victims of the Kegworth air disaster, in which a British Midland flight crashed onto the embankment of the M1 motorway, and conducted further investigations into injuries sustained in the crash.
Are you sure that the disaster is populary called the Kegworth Air Disaster? 202.95.200.12 05:27, 18 August 2007 (UTC) I agree that this accident is popularly known as the "Kegworth Air Disaster", certainly in the UK, and the article name should remain. SempreVolando 21:48, 20 October 2007 (UTC)