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News & Sports Pageant of Movietone by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Manchester’s New Airport Opened

Date released

27 Jun 1938

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

473

NoS ID

008944

Story no

3 / 11

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Opening of the Manchester Airport. DESCRIPTION: The Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, performs the opening. SHOTLIST: Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister for Air, opens the new airport at...

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Reach for the Sky (2006)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 40 minutes), £14.00

A documentary exploring the growing activism against the governmen’s plans to expand nearly all British airports despite the growing threat of climate change. Includes images of activists blocking a runway...

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Manchester Airport fire eyewitness account (1985)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Linda Swan, eyewitness to the fire accident involving British Airtours Flight 28M Boeing 737 at Manchester Airport (22/08/85). Male interviewer not identified. Poor quality telephone interview.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

IRN Audio of the Decade [part] - nd [1983-1988]

IRN Audio of the Decade [part]. Track 1- 1985; Track 2- 1986; Track 3- 1987; Track 4- 1988; Track 5- End of feed. For the piece on Hungerford in track 3, see also AV769/557/S1. News of 1985: Manchester...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Manchester Airport fire survivors’ account (1985)

Genre

Interview

Interview with two survivors (unidentified male and Debra Whalley) of the fire involving British Airtours Flight 28M Boeing 737 at Manchester Airport (22/08/85). Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Manchester Airport fire victims and survivors (1985)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the fire involving British Airtours Flight 28M Boeing 737 at Manchester Airport (22/08/85). Includes interviews with Debra Whalley, survivor; John Evans, surgeon. Female reporter not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Air Europe collapse (1991)

Genre

News report; Vox pop; Speech

Report on the collapse of Air Europe, which has left hundreds of passengers stranded. With statements from Pauline Kirkland from Air Europe; Managing Director of Bristol Airport Les Wilson; and vox pop with...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Margaret Thatcher on her visit to Wythenshawe Hospital (1985)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the aftermath of the fire on board a Boeing 737 at Manchester Airport (22/08/85). At Wythenshawe Hospital, hospital chaplain Ronnie Clark, consultant physician Philip Jones and Prime Minister...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Aeroplane fire safety recommendations (1989)

Genre

Interview

CAA director of safety Ronald Ashford talks about air safety recommendations of a report into the fire at Manchester Airport onboard a plane nearing takeoff which killed 55, including fire resistant seats...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Gil Thompson on Boeing 737 fire (1985)

Genre

Interview

Director of Manchester Airport, Gil Thompson on the evacuation of a Boeing 737 which caught fire this morning. British Airtours Flight 28M was seriously damaged, with a significant number of casualties....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio