@aircrashbriefs: In January 1989, British Midland Flight 92 (a brand-new Boeing 737-400) was flying from London to Belfast when a fan blade violently shattered inside the left engine. The catastrophic failure caused severe vibrations, a loud banging noise, and sent smoke pouring into the passenger cabin through the air conditioning system. In a fatal, high-pressure error, the pilots mistakenly shut down the perfectly working right engine. They were accustomed to older 737 models where the cabin air conditioning was primarily fed by the right engine, leading them to falsely believe it was the source of the smoke. Compounding the error, the engine vibration gauges in the new aircraft were small and difficult to read. Furthermore, the cabin crew and passengers could physically see fire sparking from the left engine, but they remained silent, assuming the highly trained pilots already knew. The aircraft limped along on the dying left engine as they tried to divert to East Midlands Airport, but it finally gave out completely just moments before landing. The unpowered jetliner crashed onto the embankment of the M1 motorway right near the runway, resulting in 47 fatalities among the 126 people on board. The tragedy exposed critical flaws in pilot transition training for new aircraft models and led to redesigned engine instruments, improved crew communication, and the standardization of the modern passenger "brace" position. #BritishMidland92 #KegworthDisaster #AirCrashInvestigation #AviationHistory #FlightSafety

Mia🎀 :

The fact that they were so so close to landing…

🥁Riley-Plays-Drums🥁 :

type shi bros sends me before my flight

Sarah :

tbh 87 surviving is pretty good! I feel if they hadn't been so close to landing it would have been worse.

#1 𝓵𝓾𝓯𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓼𝓪 𝓯𝓪𝓷🛬 :

Rip to those who died 🥀

unknown :

I hope this never happens to me

. :

why didnt they deploy water ball to engine?

John Benton :

I was in the RAF at Wyton in '89. We were having a beer in the Pigs Bar when one of the old lags came in and, "Get some beers down you lads. There's been a civvy aircraft go down & they'll be looking for volunteers. You can't go if you're pissed." Needless to say, we took his advice.

GeggieTheMeatball :

So it’s the pilots fault?

Dragon :

it was partly the smell too. this 737 was newer, and so its air conditioning system was different from the older models that the pilots were used to flying. in the older models, the air conditioning came from only the right engine, so when they smelt smoke they assume it was that. but on the newer models the air conditioning comes from both engines, meaning they didnt realise that the smoke was from the left, not the right

Oliver🤘🏼🔥💯 :

Bro I’m flying tomorrow 😑

Stefan :

Remember the night this happened I lived not far all we could hear was sirens for hours very sad 😔

65Gill🎀 :

Can’t believe they shut the wrong engine, ALL the passengers new what engine was on fire 💔💔

⛧ 𝓞𝓵𝓲𝓿𝓲𝓪 ⛧ :

I live only 20 miles from East Midlands Airport, I wasn’t born when this happened but I’ve heard about it so often, RIP to all those who passed 🪽

palespapa :

Video is wrong, it belly flopped onto the embankment, not nose first. That was how so many survived

Gorillaz fan :

East Midlands Mentioned 👍👍👍 🔥

philia Kenny Rogers :

this is sad tregedy

Awais Malik. :

how many people were died that accident?

ThefrugalTurk :

mharris6448 :

Aside from the video: why, when the word in commentary is 'led', it always comes up in subtitles as 'LED'?

Sheikh yerbooty :

East Midlands mentioned whoop whoop

Trans World Airlines :

i was surprised that they got the wrong engine shut down

dukeofmweiga :

see something, say something

Momo :

RIP 🙏🏼❤️

.🪯 :

I feel so bad