Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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. [1]
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 01:18, 8 January 2015: 2,001 × 1,318 (1.41 MB): Nick {{Information |Description=British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400, G-OBME, which suffered an engine fire and on approach to East Midlands Airport, crashed onto the M1 motorway.
— Sept. 16, 2011 — The pilot of a 70-year-old modified P-51D Mustang called the Galloping Ghost lost control of the aircraft at the National Championship Air Races and Air Show in Reno, Nevada ...
In the United Kingdom, the brace-for-impact position for forward-facing passengers was optimised following the Kegworth air disaster in 1989. In that incident, the pilot announced "Prepare for crash landing" 10 seconds before impact, and the resulting injuries—from both those who did and did not adopt the brace position—would later be studied.
1951 LOT Li-2 Tuszyn air disaster; 1951 Miami Airlines C-46 crash; 1953 Sabena Convair CV-240 crash; 1961 Bogoroditsk Il-18 incident; 1965 Hong Kong US Marines KC-130F Crash; 1970 Dominicana de Aviación DC-9 crash; 1977 British Airtours Boeing 707 crash; 1983 TAMPA Colombia Boeing 707 crash; 1997 Irkutsk Antonov An-124 crash; 2001 Omsk An-70 crash
American Airlines pilots voted in favor of a strike, but that doesn't mean it's going to happen. Here's what travelers need to know.
Kegworth air disaster This page was last edited on 17 February 2021, at 06:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...