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G-BGJL, the aircraft involved, seen at the accident airport, Manchester Airport, in 1982, while still in its previous livery. The 1985 Manchester Airport disaster occurred when British Airtours Flight 28M (officially known as Flight 328), an international passenger flight, was en-route from Manchester Airport to Corfu International Airport. It ...
47. Injuries. 74. Survivors. 79. 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]
The Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 formally defines an aviation accident as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place from the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until all such persons have disembarked, and in which (a) a person is fatally or seriously injured, (b) the aircraft sustains significant damage or ...
1920–1929. Blériot 155 F-AICQ Clement Ader, which crashed following the first mid-air fire on an airliner. 1920. 18 March – Aircraft Transport & Travel Airco DH.16 G-EACT crashed into the English Channel off Beachy Head; the pilot was rescued by a ship. [ 4] 29 March – Nieuport Delage 30T F-CGTI crashed at Lympne.
15. On 22 August 2015, a former military aircraft crashed onto a main road during an aerial display at the Shoreham Airshow at Shoreham Airport, England, killing 11 people and injuring 16 others. It was the deadliest air show accident in the United Kingdom since the 1952 Farnborough Airshow crash, which had killed 31 people.
6. Fatalities. 118. Survivors. 0. British European Airways Flight 548 was a scheduled passenger flight from London Heathrow to Brussels that crashed near Staines, England, shortly after take-off on 18 June 1972, killing all 118 people on board. The accident became known as the Staines air disaster. As of 2024, it remains the deadliest air ...
The aircraft had just picked up a four-man patrol and on take-off had entered low cloud. The pilot descended to regain a visual of the area when the aircraft struck some trees and crashed. The pilot and navigator were killed, four of the other members of the flight were wounded (one severely). [73]
According to the Flight Safety Foundation, at least 50 personnel have died in crashes operating or testing the aircraft. More than 20 of those deaths came after the V-22 entered service in 2007.