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Kegworth air disaster
The Kegworth air disaster occurred when British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashed onto the motorway embankment between the M1 motorway and A453 road near Kegworth, Leicestershire, England, while attempting to make an emergency landing at East Midlands Airport on 8 January 1989.
The aircraft was on a scheduled flight from London Heathrow Airport to Belfast International Airport, when a fan-blade broke in the left engine, disrupting the air conditioning and filling the flight deck with smoke. The pilots believed that
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Cartoonist Bill Tidy was a long-term resident of Kegworth in the 1980s and 1990s.
Biologist Keith Campbell (biologist) was resident in the village. He is well known as one of the team to clone Dolly (sheep) and produced further clones, sisters to Dolly, during his time in Kegworth.
See also.
- Kegworth railway station
- Kegworth air disaster
External links.
- village web site
- Kegworth - One Kegworth