Today marks 25 years since one of the UK's worst air disasters, when 47 people died after a British Midland Boeing 737 en route to Belfast crashed into an embankment on the M1 during an attempted emergency landing at East Midlands airport.
Today marks 25 years since 47 people died when a British Midland Boeing 737 crashed on the embankment of the M1 near Kegworth in Leicestershire.
Flight BD 092 took off from Heathrow at 7:52pm on January 8 1989 bound for Belfast, but was diverted to East Midlands Airport after the pilot reported engine trouble.
ITV News Central reporter Chris Halpin explains the flight's final moments before it crash landed, just metres from the runway.
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