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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 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.
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1942 Herefordshire TRE Halifax crash; 1943 RAF Hudson crash; 1944 Ålvand RAF Lancaster crash; 1944 Montreal RAF Liberator VI crash; 1945 Broadway Consolidated Liberator crash; 1956 London Heathrow Avro Vulcan crash; 1982 Royal Air Force Jaguar shootdown incident