<Tr> <Th> Injuries </Th> <Td> 74 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Survivors </Th> <Td> 79 (71 passengers and all 8 crew) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Kegworth air disaster occurred when a Boeing 737 - 400 crashed on to the embankment of the M1 motorway near Kegworth, Leicestershire, England, while attempting to make an emergency landing at East Midlands Airport on 8 January 1989 . </P> <P> British Midland Flight 92 was on a scheduled flight from London Heathrow Airport to Belfast 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 this indicated a fault in the right engine, since earlier models of the 737 ventilated the flight - deck from the right, and they were unaware that the 400 used a different system . The crew mistakenly shut down the good engine, and pumped more fuel into the malfunctioning one, which burst into flames . Of the 126 people aboard, 47 died and 74 sustained serious injuries . </P>

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