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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 aftermath of Flight 28M; August 22, 1985 – British Airtours Flight 28M, a 737-200, aborted its takeoff at Manchester Airport in Manchester, England, after it caught fire due to a crack in one of the combustors of the left Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15 engine. Of the 137 passengers and crew on board, 55 died, most due to toxic smoke inhalation.
British Midland Canadair C-4 G-ALHG at Manchester Airport on 29 August 1965. The Stockport Air Disaster: a Canadair C-4 aircraft owned by British Midland Airways (registration G-ALHG) operating a holiday charter flight crashed near the centre of Stockport, Greater Manchester, on 4 June 1967. This accident, the deadliest in the airline's history ...
The collision of an airplane and a military helicopter was caught on video -- there was a fiery explosion. Video shows DC plane crash involving American Airlines flight, Black Hawk helicopter Skip ...
Warr’s video shows lightning striking the aircraft while it was parked at the gate. Commercial aircraft, such as the one in the video, are hit by lightning only once or twice a year on average ...
British Airways Flight 009: Boeing 747-200: Jakarta, Indonesia: Volcanic ash ingestion from Mount Galunggung: En route at FL370, all engines failed. After 10 minutes of gliding, four engines restarted, but one failed again and was shut down. Flight landed safely in Jakarta. 0: 263 5 May 1983 Eastern Air Lines Flight 855: Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
A flight bound for Glasgow declared an emergency minutes before landing in the Scottish city after an onboard incident.. Flight BA8722 left London City Airport at 1.30 pm on Monday (21 October ...
The crash-landing of British Airways Flight 38 on 17 January 2008 received worldwide media attention despite there being only minor injuries among the occupants. 2000. 6 February – Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 805, operated by Boeing 727-228 YA-FAY, was hijacked on a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Kabul, Afghanistan to Mazar-i-Sharif.