Air Safety Measures

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This paper discusses the air disaster when the British Midlands Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashed on to the MI motorway, resulting in many deaths, injuries, and damage. The paper examines the subsequent evaluation of the disaster and the injuries sustained by the passengers, explaining that this led to an official compilation of 31 additional safety measures for aircraft and passenger safety.

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"The air disaster at Kegworth, UK, occurred on January 8, 1989, at Leicestershire, close to Kegworth. What happened was that the British Midlands Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, owned by Midland, crashed on to the MI Motorway, close to 'Kegworth'. There were 118 passengers aboard the flight, and 47 people died on the very spot of the crash, and 18 people died later at various hospitals. The eight crewmembers miraculously survived, and of the survivors, that numbered 79, about 5 people suffered minor injuries, while 74 persons were seriously injured, and fortunately, nobody who was on the motorway was hurt or even injured, and no vehicles were damaged. What happened was this: after the flight had taken off from Heathrow Airport, the plane was ascending to 28,000 feet when one engine of the plane suffered a 'turbine blade detachment', and the crew members mistakenly identified the engine number two as having suffered the damages, and not engine number one, and when the flight was diverted to East Midlands, it was assumed, quite naturally, that the it would be able to fly on the single undamaged engine until safety."

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