Michael Cowan on events leading up to Kegworth air disaster
- Title
- Michael Cowan on events leading up to Kegworth air disaster
- Genre
- Press conference; Speech
- TX Date
- 9 Jan 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:01:39
- Description
- A British Midland Boeing 737 has crashed onto the embankment of the M1 motorway near Kegworth in Leicestershire as it attempted to make an emergency landing at East Midlands Airport with one of its engines ablaze. Vice- Chairman of East Midlands Airport, Michael Cowan makes a statement and answers questions on events leading up to the crash and the prompt attendance of the emergency services.
- Contributors
- Michael Cowan
- Keywords
- Air accidents; Emergency services; Airports; UK; Great Britain; Motorways; England; Disasters; Aviation; Leicestershire; British Midland Airways; Kegworth air disaster (1989); M1 (motorway); East Midlands Airport
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