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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

Margaret Thatcher on Boeing 737 fire (1985)

Genre

Interview

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on her visit to the survivors of the Manchester Airport Boeing 737 fire (22/08/85). More than 50 passengers and crew died in the fire on board British Airtours Flight 28M....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Bill Tench and survivors on Manchester Boeing 737 fire (1985)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the fire on board a Boeing 737 at Manchester Airport (22/08/85). Includes excerpt from an interview with former chief crash investigator at the Department of Transport, Bill Tench, while survivors...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio