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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.
The crash was the fifth major Nigerian aviation disaster in a decade, after EAS Airlines Flight 4226 in 2002, Bellview Airlines Flight 210 and Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 in 2005, and ADC Airlines Flight 053 in 2006. Consequently, it led to a major overhaul of the nation's aviation sector.
Aircraft crashed onto M1 motorway, skidding up motorway embankment, 689 yards from runway threshold. 47: 126 3 September 1989 Varig Flight 254: Boeing 737-200: São José do Xingu, Amazon jungle, Brazil Navigation error, fuel exhaustion: Crew entered incorrect heading into flight computer (270 instead of 027), taking plane over remote area of ...
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 707-321B (registration HK-2016). [2]: 21 The aircraft was manufactured in June 1967, and was purchased by Avianca from Pan Am in 1977.. By the time of the crash, the aircraft was 22 years old and had over 61,000 flight hou
The flight of a single-engine airplane that crashed in Shelby County Wednesday, killing two men, originated from the Monroe County Airport.. Data from FlightAware, a flight-tracking website, shows ...
The new Netflix drama, directed by J.A. Bayona, tells the story of the disaster, which happened in October 1972 when Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the Andes mountains, immediately ...
The ashes of a big-eyed, brown and white puppy named Lisa that died last week in a plane crash in New York’s Catskill Mountains were being delivered Sunday to the family of the animal rescue ...
ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami to Atlanta in the United States. On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Florida Everglades about ten minutes after departing Miami as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment caused by mislabeled and improperly stored hazardous cargo (oxygen generators).