British Midland Flight 92, a two-month-old Boeing 737-400, takes-off from Heathrow Airport in London, heading for Belfast. While on route the aircraft's left engine suffers a fan blade failure. The crew shut down the wrong engine and start to prepare for an emergency landing at East Midlands Airport. On approach to the airport the damaged left engine fails completely and then catches fire. With insufficient thrust to maintain altitude, the plane crashes 900 metres from the runway on the M1 motorway embankment at Kegworth, killing 47 people, though miraculously, the plane managed to clear the motorway itself, preventing any further casualties on the ground.
